Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide
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Document Information

Preface

1.  Introduction

2.  Types, Operators, and Expressions

3.  Variables

4.  D Program Structure

5.  Pointers and Arrays

6.  Strings

7.  Structs and Unions

8.  Type and Constant Definitions

9.  Aggregations

10.  Actions and Subroutines

11.  Buffers and Buffering

12.  Output Formatting

13.  Speculative Tracing

14.  dtrace(1M) Utility

15.  Scripting

16.  Options and Tunables

17.  dtrace Provider

18.  lockstat Provider

Overview

Adaptive Lock Probes

Spin Lock Probes

Thread Locks

Readers/Writer Lock Probes

Stability

19.  profile Provider

20.  fbt Provider

21.  syscall Provider

22.  sdt Provider

23.  sysinfo Provider

24.  vminfo Provider

25.  proc Provider

26.  sched Provider

27.  io Provider

28.  mib Provider

29.  fpuinfo Provider

30.  pid Provider

31.  plockstat Provider

32.  fasttrap Provider

33.  User Process Tracing

34.  Statically Defined Tracing for User Applications

35.  Security

36.  Anonymous Tracing

37.  Postmortem Tracing

38.  Performance Considerations

39.  Stability

40.  Translators

41.  Versioning

Glossary

Index
Chapter 18

lockstat Provider

The lockstat provider makes available probes that can be used to discern lock contention statistics, or to understand virtually any aspect of locking behavior. The lockstat(1M) command is actually a DTrace consumer that uses the lockstat provider to gather its raw data.
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