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24.Dd May 24, 2015
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 ACEHIV
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.Bl -tag -width indent
94.It Fl V
95Print the D program used to gather the requested data.
96.El
97.Ss Event Selection
98If no event selection options are specified, the default is
99.Fl C .
100.Bl -tag -width indent
101.It Fl A
102Watch all lock events.
103.Fl A
104is equivalent to
105.Fl CH .
106.It Fl C
107Watch contention events.
108.It Fl E
109Watch error events.
110.It Fl e Ar event-list
111Only watch the specified events.
112.Ar event-list
113is a comma-separated list of events or ranges of events such as 1,4-7,35.
114Run
115.Nm
116with no arguments to get a brief description of all events.
117.It Fl H
118Watch hold events.
119.It Fl I
120Watch profiling interrupt events.
121.It Fl i Ar rate
122Interrupt rate (per second) for
123.Fl I .
124The default is 97 Hz, so that profiling doesn't run in lockstep with the clock
125interrupt (which runs at 100 Hz).
126.El
127.Ss Data Gathering
128.Bl -tag -width indent
129.It Fl x Ar arg Oo Ns = Ns Ar val Oc
130Enable or modify a
131.Xr dtrace 1
132runtime option or D compiler option.
133Boolean options are enabled by specifying their name.
134Options with values are set by separating the option name and value with an
135equals sign.
136.El
137.Ss "Data Gathering (Mutually Exclusive)"
138.Bl -tag -width indent
139.It Fl b
140Basic statistics: lock, caller, number of events.
141.It Fl h
142Histogram: timing plus time-distribution histograms.
143.It Fl s Ar depth
144Stack trace: histogram plus stack traces up to
145.Ar depth
146frames deep.
147.It Fl t
148Timing: Basic plus timing for all events (default).
149.El
150.Ss "Data Filtering"
151.Bl -tag -width indent
152.It Fl d Ar duration
153Only watch events longer than
154.Ar duration .
155.It Fl f Ar func Ns Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc Ns
156Only watch events generated by
157.Ar func ,
158which can be specified as a symbolic name or hex address.
159.Ar size
160defaults to the ELF symbol size if available, or 1 if not.
161.It Fl l Ar lock Ns Oo Ns , Ns Ar size Oc Ns
162Only watch
163.Ar lock ,
164which can be specified as a symbolic name or hex address.
165.Ar size
166defaults to the ELF symbol size or 1 if the symbol size is not available.
167.It Fl n Ar num-records
168Maximum number of data records.
169.It Fl T
170Trace (rather than sample) events.
171This is off by default.
172.El
173.Ss Data Reporting
174.Bl -tag -width indent
175.It Fl c
176Coalesce lock data for lock arrays.
177.It Fl D Ar count
178Only display the top
179.Ar count
180events of each type.
181.It Fl g
182Show total events generated by function.
183For example, if
184.Fn foo
185calls
186.Fn bar
187in a loop, the work done by
188.Fn bar
189counts as work generated by
190.Fn foo
191(along with any work done by
192.Fn foo
193itself).
194The
195.Fl g
196option works by counting the total number of stack frames in which each function
197appears.
198This implies two things: (1) the data reported by
199.Fl g
200can be misleading if the stack traces are not deep enough, and (2) functions
201that are called recursively might show greater than 100% activity.
202In light of issue (1), the default data gathering mode when using
203.Fl g
204is
205.Fl s 50 .
206.It Fl k
207Coalesce PCs within functions.
208.It Fl o Ar filename
209Direct output to
210.Ar filename .
211.It Fl P
212Sort data by (\fIcount * time\fR) product.
213.It Fl p
214Parsable output format.
215.It Fl R
216Display rates (events per second) rather than counts.
217.It Fl W
218Whichever: distinguish events only by caller, not by lock.
219.It Fl w
220Wherever: distinguish events only by lock, not by caller.
221.El
222.Sh DISPLAY FORMATS
223The following headers appear over various columns of data.
224.Bl -tag -width indent
225.It Count or ops/s
226Number of times this event occurred, or the rate (times per second) if
227.Fl R
228was specified.
229.It indv
230Percentage of all events represented by this individual event.
231.It genr
232Percentage of all events generated by this function.
233.It cuml
234Cumulative percentage; a running total of the individuals.
235.It rcnt
236Average reference count.
237This will always be 1 for exclusive locks (mutexes,
238spin locks, rwlocks held as writer) but can be greater than 1 for shared locks
239(rwlocks held as reader).
240.It nsec
241Average duration of the events in nanoseconds, as appropriate for the event.
242For the profiling event, duration means interrupt latency.
243.It Lock
244Address of the lock; displayed symbolically if possible.
245.It CPU+Pri_Class
246CPU plus the priority class of the interrupted thread.
247For example, if CPU 4 is interrupted while running a timeshare thread, this
248will be reported as
249.Ql cpu[4]+TShar .
250.It Caller
251Address of the caller; displayed symbolically if possible.
252.El
253.Sh EXAMPLES
254.Bl -tag -width 0n
255.It Example 1 Measuring Kernel Lock Contention
256.Pp
257.Li # lockstat sleep 5
258.Bd -literal
259Adaptive mutex spin: 41411 events in 5.011 seconds (8263 events/sec)
260
261Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
262-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
26313750  33%  33% 0.00       72 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_free_toq+0x12e
26413648  33%  66% 0.00       66 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x138
265 4023  10%  76% 0.00       51 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_dequeue+0x68
266 2672   6%  82% 0.00      186 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_enqueue+0x63
267  618   1%  84% 0.00       31 0xfffff8000cd83a88     qsyncvp+0x37
268  506   1%  85% 0.00      164 0xfffff8000cb3f098     vputx+0x5a
269  477   1%  86% 0.00       69 0xfffff8000c7eb180     uma_dbg_getslab+0x5b
270  288   1%  87% 0.00       77 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vn_finished_write+0x29
271  263   1%  88% 0.00      103 0xfffff8000cbad448     vinactive+0xdc
272  259   1%  88% 0.00       53 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vfs_ref+0x24
273  237   1%  89% 0.00       20 0xfffff8000cbad448     vfs_hash_get+0xcc
274  233   1%  89% 0.00       22 0xfffff8000bfd9480     uma_dbg_getslab+0x5b
275  223   1%  90% 0.00       20 0xfffff8000cb3f098     cache_lookup+0x561
276  193   0%  90% 0.00       16 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vref+0x27
277  175   0%  91% 0.00       34 0xfffff8000cbad448     vputx+0x5a
278  169   0%  91% 0.00       51 0xfffff8000cd8b000     vfs_unbusy+0x27
279  164   0%  92% 0.00       31 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vputx+0x5a
280[...]
281
282Adaptive mutex block: 10 events in 5.011 seconds (2 events/sec)
283
284Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
285-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
286    3  30%  30% 0.00    17592 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x138
287    2  20%  50% 0.00    20528 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_enqueue+0x63
288    2  20%  70% 0.00    55502 0xfffff8000cb40ba8     vputx+0x5a
289    1  10%  80% 0.00    12007 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_free_toq+0x12e
290    1  10%  90% 0.00     9125 0xfffff8000cbad448     vfs_hash_get+0xcc
291    1  10% 100% 0.00     7864 0xfffff8000cd83a88     qsyncvp+0x37
292-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
293[...]
294.Ed
295.It Example 2 Measuring Hold Times
296.Pp
297.Li # lockstat -H -D 10 sleep 1
298.Bd -literal
299Adaptive mutex hold: 109589 events in 1.039 seconds (105526 events/sec)
300
301Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
302-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
303 8998   8%   8% 0.00      617 0xfffff8000c7eb180     uma_dbg_getslab+0xd4
304 5901   5%  14% 0.00      917 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_object_terminate+0x16a
305 5040   5%  18% 0.00      902 vm_dom+0x80            vm_page_free_toq+0x88
306 4884   4%  23% 0.00     1056 vm_page_queue_free_mtx vm_page_alloc+0x44e
307 4664   4%  27% 0.00      759 vm_dom+0x80            vm_fault_hold+0x1a13
308 4011   4%  31% 0.00      888 vm_dom                 vm_page_advise+0x11b
309 4010   4%  34% 0.00      957 vm_dom+0x80            _vm_page_deactivate+0x5c
310 3743   3%  38% 0.00      582 0xfffff8000cf04838     pmap_is_prefaultable+0x158
311 2254   2%  40% 0.00      952 vm_dom                 vm_page_free_toq+0x88
312 1639   1%  41% 0.00      591 0xfffff800d60065b8     trap_pfault+0x1f7
313-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
314[...]
315
316R/W writer hold: 64314 events in 1.039 seconds (61929 events/sec)
317
318Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
319-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
320 7421  12%  12% 0.00     2994 pvh_global_lock        pmap_page_is_mapped+0xb6
321 4668   7%  19% 0.00     3313 pvh_global_lock        pmap_enter+0x9ae
322 1639   3%  21% 0.00      733 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_object_deallocate+0x683
323 1639   3%  24% 0.00     3061 0xfffff80168d10200     unlock_and_deallocate+0x2b
324 1639   3%  26% 0.00     2966 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_fault_hold+0x16ee
325 1567   2%  29% 0.00      733 0xfffff80168d10200     vm_fault_hold+0x19bc
326  821   1%  30% 0.00      786 0xfffff801eb0cc000     vm_object_madvise+0x32d
327  649   1%  31% 0.00     4918 0xfffff80191105300     vm_fault_hold+0x16ee
328  648   1%  32% 0.00     8112 0xfffff80191105300     unlock_and_deallocate+0x2b
329  647   1%  33% 0.00     1261 0xfffff80191105300     vm_object_deallocate+0x683
330-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
331.Ed
332.It Example 3 Measuring Hold Times for Stack Traces Containing a Specific Function
333.Pp
334.Li # lockstat -H -f tcp_input -s 50 -D 10 sleep 1
335.Bd -literal
336Adaptive mutex hold: 68 events in 1.026 seconds (66 events/sec)
337
338-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
339Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
340   32  47%  47% 0.00     1631 0xfffff800686f50d8     tcp_do_segment+0x284b
341
342      nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count     Stack
343      1024 |@@@@@@@@@@                     11        tcp_input+0xf54
344      2048 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@                  14        ip_input+0xc8
345      4096 |@@@@@                          6         swi_net+0x192
346      8192 |                               1         intr_event_execute_handlers+0x93
347                                                     ithread_loop+0xa6
348                                                     fork_exit+0x84
349                                                     0xffffffff808cf9ee
350-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
351Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Lock                   Caller
352   29  43%  90% 0.00     4851 0xfffff800686f50d8     sowakeup+0xf8
353
354      nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count     Stack
355      4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                15        tcp_do_segment+0x2423
356      8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@                   12        tcp_input+0xf54
357     16384 |@@                             2         ip_input+0xc8
358                                                     swi_net+0x192
359                                                     intr_event_execute_handlers+0x93
360                                                     ithread_loop+0xa6
361                                                     fork_exit+0x84
362                                                     0xffffffff808cf9ee
363-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
364[...]
365.Ed
366.El
367.Sh SEE ALSO
368.Xr dtrace 1 ,
369.Xr ksyms 4 ,
370.Xr locking 9
371.Sh NOTES
372Tail-call elimination can affect call sites.
373For example, if
374.Fn foo Ns +0x50
375calls
376.Fn bar
377and the last thing
378.Fn bar
379does is call
380.Fn mtx_unlock ,
381the compiler can arrange for
382.Fn bar
383to branch to
384.Fn mtx_unlock
385with a return address of
386.Fn foo Ns +0x58.
387Thus, the
388.Fn mtx_unlock
389in
390.Fn bar
391will appear as though it occurred at
392.Fn foo Ns +0x58.
393.Pp
394The PC in the stack frame in which an interrupt occurs can be bogus because,
395between function calls, the compiler is free to use the return address register
396for local storage.
397.Pp
398When using the
399.Fl I
400and
401.Fl s
402options together, the interrupted PC will usually not appear anywhere in the
403stack since the interrupt handler is entered asynchronously, not by a function
404call from that PC.
405