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Add the possibility to use modules as trace data receivers. The functions
in the module have to be nifs as otherwise complex trace probes will be
very hard to handle (complex means trace probes for ports for example).
This commit changes the way that the ptab->tracer field works from always
being an immediate, to now be NIL if no tracer is present or else be
the tuple {TracerModule, TracerState} where TracerModule is an atom that
is later used to lookup the appropriate tracer callbacks to call and
TracerState is just passed to the tracer callback. The default process and
port tracers have been rewritten to use the new API.
This commit also changes the order which trace messages are delivered to the
potential tracer process. Any enif_send done in a tracer module may be delayed
indefinitely because of lock order issues. If a message is delayed any other
trace message send from that process is also delayed so that order is preserved
for each traced entity. This means that for some trace events (i.e. send/receive)
the events may come in an unintuitive order (receive before send) to the
trace receiver. Timestamps are taken when the trace message is generated so
trace messages from differented processes may arrive with the timestamp
out of order.
Both the erlang:trace and seq_trace:set_system_tracer accept the new tracer
module tracers and also the backwards compatible arguments.
OTP-10267
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Conflicts:
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam
lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
lib/stdlib/test/filename_SUITE.erl
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Due to various operating systems (in both the DTrace and SystemTap
worlds) not fully supporting DTrace probes (or SystemTap-compatibility
mode probes) in shared libraries, we relocate those probes to the
statically-linked virtual machine. This could be seen as pollution
of the pristine VM by a (yet) experimental feature. However:
1. This code can be eliminated completely by the C preprocessor.
2. Leaving the probes in the dyntrace NIF shared library simply
does not work correctly on too many platforms.
*Many* thanks to Macneil Shonle at Basho for assisting when my
RSI-injured fingers gave out.
Tested on:
* CentOS 5, SystemTap 1.3
* Solaris 10 (note)
* Solaris 11
* OpenIndiana 151
* SmartOS 20120809T221258Z
* FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (note)
I had hoped to be able to test CentOS 6 + SystemTap 1.7, but the
details of dealing with all dependencies for a 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64
kernel are too time consuming right now.
(note: Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can take a long time to compile)
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It seems useful to be able to filter out (for example) just
the global calls.
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Add probes to the virtual machine, except (mostly) the efile_drv.c
driver and other file I/O-related source files.
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