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24.Dd October 24, 2013
25.Dt LOCKSTAT 1
26.Os
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm lockstat
29.Nd report kernel lock and profiling statistics
30.Sh SYNOPSIS
31.Nm
32.Op Fl ACEHI
33.Op Fl e Ar event-list
34.Op Fl i Ar rate
35.Op Fl b | t | h | s Ar depth
36.Op Fl n Ar num-records
37.Op Fl l Ar lock Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc
38.Op Fl d Ar duration
39.Op Fl f Ar function Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc
40.Op Fl T
41.Op Fl ckgwWRpP
42.Op Fl D Ar count
43.Op Fl o filename
44.Op Fl x Ar opt Oo Ns = Ns Ar val Oc
45.Ar command
46.Op Oo Ar args Oc
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility gathers and displays kernel locking and profiling statistics.
51.Nm
52allows you to specify which events to watch (for example, spin on adaptive
53mutex, block on read access to rwlock due to waiting writers, and so forth), how
54much data to gather for each event, and how to display the data.
55By default,
56.Nm
57monitors all lock contention events, gathers frequency and timing data about
58those events, and displays the data in decreasing frequency order, so that the
59most common events appear first.
60.Pp
61.Nm
62gathers data until the specified command completes.
63For example, to gather statistics for a fixed-time interval, use
64.Xr sleep 1
65as the command, as follows:
66.Pp
67.Dl # lockstat sleep 5
68.Pp
69When the
70.Fl I
71option is specified,
72.Nm lockstat
73establishes a per-processor high-level periodic interrupt source to gather
74profiling data.
75The interrupt handler simply generates a
76.Nm
77event whose caller is the interrupted PC (program counter).
78The profiling event is just like any other
79.Nm lockstat
80event, so all of the normal
81.Nm lockstat
82options are applicable.
83.Pp
84.Nm
85relies on DTrace to modify the running kernel's text to intercept events of
86interest.
87This imposes a small but measurable overhead on all system activity, so access
88to
89.Nm
90is restricted to super-user by default.
91.Sh OPTIONS
92The following options are supported:
93.Ss Event Selection
94If no event selection options are specified, the default is
95.Fl C .
96.Bl -tag -width indent
97.It Fl A
98Watch all lock events.
99.Fl A
100is equivalent to
101.Fl CH .
102.It Fl C
103Watch contention events.
104.It Fl E
105Watch error events.
106.It Fl e Ar event-list
107Only watch the specified events.
108.Ar event-list
109is a comma-separated list of events or ranges of events such as 1,4-7,35.
110Run
111.Nm
112with no arguments to get a brief description of all events.
113.It Fl H
114Watch hold events.
115.It Fl I
116Watch profiling interrupt events.
117.It Fl i Ar rate
118Interrupt rate (per second) for
119.Fl I .
120The default is 97 Hz, so that profiling doesn't run in lockstep with the clock
121interrupt (which runs at 100 Hz).
122.El
123.Ss Data Gathering
124.Bl -tag -width indent
125.It Fl x Ar arg Oo Ns = Ns Ar val Oc
126Enable or modify a
127.Xr dtrace 1
128runtime option or D compiler option.
129Boolean options are enabled by specifying their name.
130Options with values are set by separating the option name and value with an
131equals sign.
132.El
133.Ss "Data Gathering (Mutually Exclusive)"
134.Bl -tag -width indent
135.It Fl b
136Basic statistics: lock, caller, number of events.
137.It Fl h
138Histogram: timing plus time-distribution histograms.
139.It Fl s Ar depth
140Stack trace: histogram plus stack traces up to
141.Ar depth
142frames deep.
143.It Fl t
144Timing: Basic plus timing for all events (default).
145.El
146.Ss "Data Filtering"
147.Bl -tag -width indent
148.It Fl d Ar duration
149Only watch events longer than
150.Ar duration .
151.It Fl f Ar func Ns Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc Ns
152Only watch events generated by
153.Ar func ,
154which can be specified as a symbolic name or hex address.
155.Ar size
156defaults to the ELF symbol size if available, or 1 if not.
157.It Fl l Ar lock Ns Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc Ns
158Only watch
159.Ar lock ,
160which can be specified as a symbolic name or hex address.
161.Ar size
162defaults to the ELF symbol size or 1 if the symbol size is not available.
163.It Fl n Ar num-records
164Maximum number of data records.
165.It Fl T
166Trace (rather than sample) events.
167This is off by default.
168.El
169.Ss Data Reporting
170.Bl -tag -width indent
171.It Fl c
172Coalesce lock data for lock arrays.
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+PIL
242CPU plus processor interrupt level (PIL).
243For example, if CPU 4 is interrupted while at PIL 6, this will be reported as
244cpu[4]+6.
245.It Caller
246Address of the caller; displayed symbolically if possible.
247.El
248.Sh EXAMPLES
249.Bl -tag -width 0n
250.It Example 1 Measuring Kernel Lock Contention
251.Pp
252.Li # lockstat sleep 5
253.Bd -literal
254Adaptive mutex spin: 41411 events in 5.011 seconds (8263 events/sec)
255
256Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
257-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
25813750  33%  33% 0.00       72 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_free_toq+0x12e
25913648  33%  66% 0.00       66 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x138
260 4023  10%  76% 0.00       51 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_dequeue+0x68
261 2672   6%  82% 0.00      186 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_enqueue+0x63
262  618   1%  84% 0.00       31 0xfffff8000cd83a88     qsyncvp+0x37
263  506   1%  85% 0.00      164 0xfffff8000cb3f098     vputx+0x5a
264  477   1%  86% 0.00       69 0xfffff8000c7eb180     uma_dbg_getslab+0x5b
265  288   1%  87% 0.00       77 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vn_finished_write+0x29
266  263   1%  88% 0.00      103 0xfffff8000cbad448     vinactive+0xdc
267  259   1%  88% 0.00       53 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vfs_ref+0x24
268  237   1%  89% 0.00       20 0xfffff8000cbad448     vfs_hash_get+0xcc
269  233   1%  89% 0.00       22 0xfffff8000bfd9480     uma_dbg_getslab+0x5b
270  223   1%  90% 0.00       20 0xfffff8000cb3f098     cache_lookup+0x561
271  193   0%  90% 0.00       16 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vref+0x27
272  175   0%  91% 0.00       34 0xfffff8000cbad448     vputx+0x5a
273  169   0%  91% 0.00       51 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vfs_unbusy+0x27
274  164   0%  92% 0.00       31 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vputx+0x5a
275[...]
276
277Adaptive mutex block: 10 events in 5.011 seconds (2 events/sec)
278
279Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
280-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
281    3  30%  30% 0.00    17592 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x138
282    2  20%  50% 0.00    20528 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_enqueue+0x63
283    2  20%  70% 0.00    55502 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vputx+0x5a
284    1  10%  80% 0.00    12007 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_free_toq+0x12e
285    1  10%  90% 0.00     9125 0xfffff8000cbad448     vfs_hash_get+0xcc
286    1  10% 100% 0.00     7864 0xfffff8000cd83a88     qsyncvp+0x37
287-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
288[...]
289.Ed
290.It Example 2 Measuring Hold Times
291.Pp
292.Li # lockstat -H -D 10 sleep 1
293.Bd -literal
294Adaptive mutex hold: 109589 events in 1.039 seconds (105526 events/sec)
295
296Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
297-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
298 8998   8%   8% 0.00      617 0xfffff8000c7eb180     uma_dbg_getslab+0xd4
299 5901   5%  14% 0.00      917 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_object_terminate+0x16a
300 5040   5%  18% 0.00      902 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_free_toq+0x88
301 4884   4%  23% 0.00     1056 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x44e
302 4664   4%  27% 0.00      759 vm_dom+0x80            vm_fault_hold+0x1a13
303 4011   4%  31% 0.00      888 vm_dom                 vm_page_advise+0x11b
304 4010   4%  34% 0.00      957 vm_dom+0x80            _vm_page_deactivate+0x5c
305 3743   3%  38% 0.00      582 0xfffff8000cf04838     pmap_is_prefaultable+0x158
306 2254   2%  40% 0.00      952 vm_dom                 vm_page_free_toq+0x88
307 1639   1%  41% 0.00      591 0xfffff800d60065b8     trap_pfault+0x1f7
308-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
309[...]
310
311R/W writer hold: 64314 events in 1.039 seconds (61929 events/sec)
312
313Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
314-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
315 7421  12%  12% 0.00     2994 pvh_global_lock        pmap_page_is_mapped+0xb6
316 4668   7%  19% 0.00     3313 pvh_global_lock        pmap_enter+0x9ae
317 1639   3%  21% 0.00      733 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_object_deallocate+0x683
318 1639   3%  24% 0.00     3061 0xfffff80168d10200     unlock_and_deallocate+0x2b
319 1639   3%  26% 0.00     2966 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_fault_hold+0x16ee
320 1567   2%  29% 0.00      733 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_fault_hold+0x19bc
321  821   1%  30% 0.00      786 0xfffff801eb0cc000     vm_object_madvise+0x32d
322  649   1%  31% 0.00     4918 0xfffff80191105300     vm_fault_hold+0x16ee
323  648   1%  32% 0.00     8112 0xfffff80191105300     unlock_and_deallocate+0x2b
324  647   1%  33% 0.00     1261 0xfffff80191105300     vm_object_deallocate+0x683
325-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
326.Ed
327.It Example 3 Measuring Hold Times for Stack Traces Containing a Specific Function
328.Pp
329.Li # lockstat -H -f tcp_input -s 50 -D 10 sleep 1
330.Bd -literal
331Adaptive mutex hold: 68 events in 1.026 seconds (66 events/sec)
332
333-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
334Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
335   32  47%  47% 0.00     1631 0xfffff800686f50d8     tcp_do_segment+0x284b
336
337      nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count     Stack
338      1024 |@@@@@@@@@@                     11        tcp_input+0xf54
339      2048 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@                  14        ip_input+0xc8
340      4096 |@@@@@                          6         swi_net+0x192
341      8192 |                               1         intr_event_execute_handlers+0x93
342                                                     ithread_loop+0xa6
343                                                     fork_exit+0x84
344                                                     0xffffffff808cf9ee
345-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
346Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
347   29  43%  90% 0.00     4851 0xfffff800686f50d8     sowakeup+0xf8
348
349      nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count     Stack
350      4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                15        tcp_do_segment+0x2423
351      8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@                   12        tcp_input+0xf54
352     16384 |@@                             2         ip_input+0xc8
353                                                     swi_net+0x192
354                                                     intr_event_execute_handlers+0x93
355                                                     ithread_loop+0xa6
356                                                     fork_exit+0x84
357                                                     0xffffffff808cf9ee
358-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
359[...]
360.Ed
361.El
362.Sh SEE ALSO
363.Xr dtrace 1 ,
364.Xr ksyms 4 ,
365.Xr locking 9
366.Sh NOTES
367Tail-call elimination can affect call sites.
368For example, if
369.Fn foo Ns +0x50
370calls
371.Fn bar
372and the last thing
373.Fn bar
374does is call
375.Fn mtx_unlock ,
376the compiler can arrange for
377.Fn bar
378to branch to
379.Fn mtx_unlock
380with a return address of
381.Fn foo Ns +0x58.
382Thus, the
383.Fn mtx_unlock
384in
385.Fn bar
386will appear as though it occurred at
387.Fn foo Ns +0x58.
388.Pp
389The PC in the stack frame in which an interrupt occurs can be bogus because,
390between function calls, the compiler is free to use the return address register
391for local storage.
392.Pp
393When using the
394.Fl I
395and
396.Fl s
397options together, the interrupted PC will usually not appear anywhere in the
398stack since the interrupt handler is entered asynchronously, not by a function
399call from that PC.
400