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22.Dd February 25, 2020
23.Dt LOCKSTAT 1
24.Os
25.Sh NAME
26.Nm lockstat
27.Nd report kernel lock and profiling statistics
28.Sh SYNOPSIS
29.Nm
30.Op Fl ACEHIV
31.Op Fl e Ar event-list
32.Op Fl i Ar rate
33.Op Fl b | t | h | s Ar depth
34.Op Fl n Ar num-records
35.Op Fl l Ar lock Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc
36.Op Fl d Ar duration
37.Op Fl f Ar function Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc
38.Op Fl T
39.Op Fl kgwWRpP
40.Op Fl D Ar count
41.Op Fl o filename
42.Op Fl x Ar opt Oo Ns = Ns Ar val Oc
43.Ar command
44.Op Oo Ar args Oc
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility gathers and displays kernel locking and profiling statistics.
49.Nm
50allows you to specify which events to watch (for example, spin on adaptive
51mutex, block on read access to rwlock due to waiting writers, and so forth), how
52much data to gather for each event, and how to display the data.
53By default,
54.Nm
55monitors all lock contention events, gathers frequency and timing data about
56those events, and displays the data in decreasing frequency order, so that the
57most common events appear first.
58.Pp
59.Nm
60gathers data until the specified command completes.
61For example, to gather statistics for a fixed-time interval, use
62.Xr sleep 1
63as the command, as follows:
64.Pp
65.Dl # lockstat sleep 5
66.Pp
67When the
68.Fl I
69option is specified,
70.Nm lockstat
71establishes a per-processor high-level periodic interrupt source to gather
72profiling data.
73The interrupt handler simply generates a
74.Nm
75event whose caller is the interrupted PC (program counter).
76The profiling event is just like any other
77.Nm lockstat
78event, so all of the normal
79.Nm lockstat
80options are applicable.
81.Pp
82.Nm
83relies on DTrace to modify the running kernel's text to intercept events of
84interest.
85This imposes a small but measurable overhead on all system activity, so access
86to
87.Nm
88is restricted to super-user by default.
89.Sh OPTIONS
90The following options are supported:
91.Bl -tag -width indent
92.It Fl V
93Print the D program used to gather the requested data.
94.El
95.Ss Event Selection
96If no event selection options are specified, the default is
97.Fl C .
98.Bl -tag -width indent
99.It Fl A
100Watch all lock events.
101.Fl A
102is equivalent to
103.Fl CH .
104.It Fl C
105Watch contention events.
106.It Fl E
107Watch error events.
108.It Fl e Ar event-list
109Only watch the specified events.
110.Ar event-list
111is a comma-separated list of events or ranges of events such as 1,4-7,35.
112Run
113.Nm
114with no arguments to get a brief description of all events.
115.It Fl H
116Watch hold events.
117.It Fl I
118Watch profiling interrupt events.
119.It Fl i Ar rate
120Interrupt rate (per second) for
121.Fl I .
122The default is 97 Hz, so that profiling doesn't run in lockstep with the clock
123interrupt (which runs at 100 Hz).
124.El
125.Ss Data Gathering
126.Bl -tag -width indent
127.It Fl x Ar arg Oo Ns = Ns Ar val Oc
128Enable or modify a
129.Xr dtrace 1
130runtime option or D compiler option.
131Boolean options are enabled by specifying their name.
132Options with values are set by separating the option name and value with an
133equals sign.
134.El
135.Ss "Data Gathering (Mutually Exclusive)"
136.Bl -tag -width indent
137.It Fl b
138Basic statistics: lock, caller, number of events.
139.It Fl h
140Histogram: timing plus time-distribution histograms.
141.It Fl s Ar depth
142Stack trace: histogram plus stack traces up to
143.Ar depth
144frames deep.
145.It Fl t
146Timing: Basic plus timing for all events (default).
147.El
148.Ss "Data Filtering"
149.Bl -tag -width indent
150.It Fl d Ar duration
151Only watch events longer than
152.Ar duration .
153.It Fl f Ar func Ns Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc Ns
154Only watch events generated by
155.Ar func ,
156which can be specified as a symbolic name or hex address.
157.Ar size
158defaults to the ELF symbol size if available, or 1 if not.
159.It Fl l Ar lock Ns Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc Ns
160Only watch
161.Ar lock ,
162which can be specified as a symbolic name or hex address.
163.Ar size
164defaults to the ELF symbol size or 1 if the symbol size is not available.
165.It Fl n Ar num-records
166Maximum number of data records.
167.It Fl T
168Trace (rather than sample) events.
169This is off by default.
170.El
171.Ss Data Reporting
172.Bl -tag -width indent
173.It Fl D Ar count
174Only display the top
175.Ar count
176events of each type.
177.It Fl g
178Show total events generated by function.
179For example, if
180.Fn foo
181calls
182.Fn bar
183in a loop, the work done by
184.Fn bar
185counts as work generated by
186.Fn foo
187(along with any work done by
188.Fn foo
189itself).
190The
191.Fl g
192option works by counting the total number of stack frames in which each function
193appears.
194This implies two things: (1) the data reported by
195.Fl g
196can be misleading if the stack traces are not deep enough, and (2) functions
197that are called recursively might show greater than 100% activity.
198In light of issue (1), the default data gathering mode when using
199.Fl g
200is
201.Fl s 50 .
202.It Fl k
203Coalesce PCs within functions.
204.It Fl o Ar filename
205Direct output to
206.Ar filename .
207.It Fl P
208Sort data by (\fIcount * time\fR) product.
209.It Fl p
210Parsable output format.
211.It Fl R
212Display rates (events per second) rather than counts.
213.It Fl W
214Whichever: distinguish events only by caller, not by lock.
215.It Fl w
216Wherever: distinguish events only by lock, not by caller.
217.El
218.Sh DISPLAY FORMATS
219The following headers appear over various columns of data.
220.Bl -tag -width indent
221.It Count or ops/s
222Number of times this event occurred, or the rate (times per second) if
223.Fl R
224was specified.
225.It indv
226Percentage of all events represented by this individual event.
227.It genr
228Percentage of all events generated by this function.
229.It cuml
230Cumulative percentage; a running total of the individuals.
231.It rcnt
232Average reference count.
233This will always be 1 for exclusive locks (mutexes,
234spin locks, rwlocks held as writer) but can be greater than 1 for shared locks
235(rwlocks held as reader).
236.It nsec
237Average duration of the events in nanoseconds, as appropriate for the event.
238For the profiling event, duration means interrupt latency.
239.It Lock
240Address of the lock; displayed symbolically if possible.
241.It CPU+Pri_Class
242CPU plus the priority class of the interrupted thread.
243For example, if CPU 4 is interrupted while running a timeshare thread, this
244will be reported as
245.Ql cpu[4]+TShar .
246.It Caller
247Address of the caller; displayed symbolically if possible.
248.El
249.Sh EXAMPLES
250.Bl -tag -width 0n
251.It Example 1 Measuring Kernel Lock Contention
252.Pp
253.Li # lockstat sleep 5
254.Bd -literal
255Adaptive mutex spin: 41411 events in 5.011 seconds (8263 events/sec)
256
257Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
258-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
25913750  33%  33% 0.00       72 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_free_toq+0x12e
26013648  33%  66% 0.00       66 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x138
261 4023  10%  76% 0.00       51 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_dequeue+0x68
262 2672   6%  82% 0.00      186 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_enqueue+0x63
263  618   1%  84% 0.00       31 0xfffff8000cd83a88     qsyncvp+0x37
264  506   1%  85% 0.00      164 0xfffff8000cb3f098     vputx+0x5a
265  477   1%  86% 0.00       69 0xfffff8000c7eb180     uma_dbg_getslab+0x5b
266  288   1%  87% 0.00       77 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vn_finished_write+0x29
267  263   1%  88% 0.00      103 0xfffff8000cbad448     vinactive+0xdc
268  259   1%  88% 0.00       53 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vfs_ref+0x24
269  237   1%  89% 0.00       20 0xfffff8000cbad448     vfs_hash_get+0xcc
270  233   1%  89% 0.00       22 0xfffff8000bfd9480     uma_dbg_getslab+0x5b
271  223   1%  90% 0.00       20 0xfffff8000cb3f098     cache_lookup+0x561
272  193   0%  90% 0.00       16 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vref+0x27
273  175   0%  91% 0.00       34 0xfffff8000cbad448     vputx+0x5a
274  169   0%  91% 0.00       51 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vfs_unbusy+0x27
275  164   0%  92% 0.00       31 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vputx+0x5a
276[...]
277
278Adaptive mutex block: 10 events in 5.011 seconds (2 events/sec)
279
280Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
281-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
282    3  30%  30% 0.00    17592 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x138
283    2  20%  50% 0.00    20528 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_enqueue+0x63
284    2  20%  70% 0.00    55502 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vputx+0x5a
285    1  10%  80% 0.00    12007 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_free_toq+0x12e
286    1  10%  90% 0.00     9125 0xfffff8000cbad448     vfs_hash_get+0xcc
287    1  10% 100% 0.00     7864 0xfffff8000cd83a88     qsyncvp+0x37
288-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
289[...]
290.Ed
291.It Example 2 Measuring Hold Times
292.Pp
293.Li # lockstat -H -D 10 sleep 1
294.Bd -literal
295Adaptive mutex hold: 109589 events in 1.039 seconds (105526 events/sec)
296
297Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
298-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
299 8998   8%   8% 0.00      617 0xfffff8000c7eb180     uma_dbg_getslab+0xd4
300 5901   5%  14% 0.00      917 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_object_terminate+0x16a
301 5040   5%  18% 0.00      902 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_free_toq+0x88
302 4884   4%  23% 0.00     1056 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x44e
303 4664   4%  27% 0.00      759 vm_dom+0x80            vm_fault_hold+0x1a13
304 4011   4%  31% 0.00      888 vm_dom                 vm_page_advise+0x11b
305 4010   4%  34% 0.00      957 vm_dom+0x80            _vm_page_deactivate+0x5c
306 3743   3%  38% 0.00      582 0xfffff8000cf04838     pmap_is_prefaultable+0x158
307 2254   2%  40% 0.00      952 vm_dom                 vm_page_free_toq+0x88
308 1639   1%  41% 0.00      591 0xfffff800d60065b8     trap_pfault+0x1f7
309-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
310[...]
311
312R/W writer hold: 64314 events in 1.039 seconds (61929 events/sec)
313
314Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
315-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
316 7421  12%  12% 0.00     2994 pvh_global_lock        pmap_page_is_mapped+0xb6
317 4668   7%  19% 0.00     3313 pvh_global_lock        pmap_enter+0x9ae
318 1639   3%  21% 0.00      733 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_object_deallocate+0x683
319 1639   3%  24% 0.00     3061 0xfffff80168d10200     unlock_and_deallocate+0x2b
320 1639   3%  26% 0.00     2966 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_fault_hold+0x16ee
321 1567   2%  29% 0.00      733 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_fault_hold+0x19bc
322  821   1%  30% 0.00      786 0xfffff801eb0cc000     vm_object_madvise+0x32d
323  649   1%  31% 0.00     4918 0xfffff80191105300     vm_fault_hold+0x16ee
324  648   1%  32% 0.00     8112 0xfffff80191105300     unlock_and_deallocate+0x2b
325  647   1%  33% 0.00     1261 0xfffff80191105300     vm_object_deallocate+0x683
326-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
327.Ed
328.It Example 3 Measuring Hold Times for Stack Traces Containing a Specific Function
329.Pp
330.Li # lockstat -H -f tcp_input -s 50 -D 10 sleep 1
331.Bd -literal
332Adaptive mutex hold: 68 events in 1.026 seconds (66 events/sec)
333
334-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
335Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
336   32  47%  47% 0.00     1631 0xfffff800686f50d8     tcp_do_segment+0x284b
337
338      nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count     Stack
339      1024 |@@@@@@@@@@                     11        tcp_input+0xf54
340      2048 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@                  14        ip_input+0xc8
341      4096 |@@@@@                          6         swi_net+0x192
342      8192 |                               1         intr_event_execute_handlers+0x93
343                                                     ithread_loop+0xa6
344                                                     fork_exit+0x84
345                                                     0xffffffff808cf9ee
346-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
347Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
348   29  43%  90% 0.00     4851 0xfffff800686f50d8     sowakeup+0xf8
349
350      nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count     Stack
351      4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                15        tcp_do_segment+0x2423
352      8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@                   12        tcp_input+0xf54
353     16384 |@@                             2         ip_input+0xc8
354                                                     swi_net+0x192
355                                                     intr_event_execute_handlers+0x93
356                                                     ithread_loop+0xa6
357                                                     fork_exit+0x84
358                                                     0xffffffff808cf9ee
359-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
360[...]
361.Ed
362.El
363.Sh SEE ALSO
364.Xr dtrace 1 ,
365.Xr ksyms 4 ,
366.Xr locking 9
367.Sh HISTORY
368The
369.Nm
370utility first appeared in
371.Fx 7.1 .
372.Sh NOTES
373Tail-call elimination can affect call sites.
374For example, if
375.Fn foo Ns +0x50
376calls
377.Fn bar
378and the last thing
379.Fn bar
380does is call
381.Fn mtx_unlock ,
382the compiler can arrange for
383.Fn bar
384to branch to
385.Fn mtx_unlock
386with a return address of
387.Fn foo Ns +0x58.
388Thus, the
389.Fn mtx_unlock
390in
391.Fn bar
392will appear as though it occurred at
393.Fn foo Ns +0x58.
394.Pp
395The PC in the stack frame in which an interrupt occurs can be bogus because,
396between function calls, the compiler is free to use the return address register
397for local storage.
398.Pp
399When using the
400.Fl I
401and
402.Fl s
403options together, the interrupted PC will usually not appear anywhere in the
404stack since the interrupt handler is entered asynchronously, not by a function
405call from that PC.
406