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.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
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.\" Copyright (c) 2025 Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
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.Dd July 14, 2025
.Dt DTRACE_DTRACE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm dtrace_dtrace
.Nd a DTrace provider for BEGIN, END, and ERROR probes
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::BEGIN
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::END
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm dtrace
provider implements three special probes related to the life cycle of the
DTrace program itself.
.Ss dtrace:::BEGIN
The
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::BEGIN
probe fires at the beginning of a
.Xr dtrace 1 ,
program before tracing has begun.
It provides a convenient place for initializing variables
and printing column headers.
.Pp
Variables such as
.Va stack
or
.Va execname
cannot be relied upon in the execution context of the
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::BEGIN
probe.
.Ss dtrace:::END
The
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::END
probe fires at the end of a
.Xr dtrace 1
program, when all tracing has stopped.
.Ss dtrace:::ERROR
The
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR
probe fires when an unexpected runtime error occurs in another probe.
.Pp
The following table describes the arguments to
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR .
.Bl -column -offset indent "Argument" "Definition"
.It Sy Argument Ta Sy Definition
.It Fa arg1  Ta Enabled probe identifier (EPID)
of the probe where the runtime error occurred
.It Fa arg2  Ta Index of the action statement that caused the error
.It Fa arg3  Ta DIF offset into the action if available (otherwise -1)
.It Fa arg4  Ta Fault type
.It Fa arg5  Ta Accessed address (or 0 if not applicable) when
.Va arg4
is of fault type
.Dv DTRACEFLT_BADADDR , DTRACEFLT_BADALIGN , DTRACEFLT_KPRIV ,
or
.Dv DTRACEFLT_UPRIV
.El
.Pp
The fault types are:
.Bl -tag -offset indent -width "DTRACEFLT_NOSCRATCH" -compact
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_UNKNOWN
Unknown fault
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_BADADDR
Bad address
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_BADALIGN
Bad alignment
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_ILLOP
Illegal operation
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_DIVZERO
Divide-by-zero
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_NOSCRATCH
Out of scratch space
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_KPRIV
Illegal kernel access
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_UPRIV
Illegal user access
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_TUPOFLOW
Tuple stack overflow
.It Dv DTRACEFLT_BADSTACK
Bad stack
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width '<sys/dtrace.h>'
.It In sys/dtrace.h
The header file containing the definitions of DTrace fault types.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Ss Example 1 : Custom Column Headers
The following script uses the
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::BEGIN
probe to print column headers.
Note the pragma line setting the
.Ql quiet
option to disable the default column headers.
.Bd -literal -offset 2n
#pragma D option quiet

dtrace:::BEGIN
{
    printf("   %12s %-20s    %-20s %s\en",
        "DELTA(us)", "OLD", "NEW", "TIMESTAMP");
}
.Ed
.Ss Example 2 : Handling Runtime Errors with dtrace:::ERROR
The following script causes a runtime error by dereferencing a pointer
on address
.Ad 19930908
in the
.Cm BEGIN
probe.
As a result, the
.Cm ERROR
probe fires and prints out
.Dq Oops
along with the probe arguments.
At that point, the program ends and fires the
.Cm END
probe.
.\" It might look weird to define ERROR first, but that is on purpose.
.\" This way the probe IDs and EPIDs are a bit more mixed up
.\" and are easier to understand.
.Bd -literal -offset 2n
ERROR
{
    printf("Oops\en");
    printf("EPID (arg1): %d\en", arg1);
    printf("Action index (arg2): %d\en", arg2);
    printf("DIF offset (arg3): %d\en", arg3);
    printf("Fault type (arg4): %d\en", arg4);
    printf("Accessed address (arg5): %X\en", arg5);
    exit(1);
}
BEGIN
{
    *(int *)0x19931101;
}
END {
    printf("Bye");
}
.Ed
.Pp
This script will result in the following output:
.Bd -literal -offset 2n
CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
  2      3                           :ERROR Oops
EPID (arg1): 2
Action index (arg2): 1
DIF offset (arg3): 16
Fault type: 1
arg5: 19931101

dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 2 (ID 1: dtrace:::BEGIN): invalid address (0x19931101) in action #1 at DIF offset 16
  2      2                             :END Bye
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dtrace 1 ,
.Xr tracing 7
.Rs
.%B The illumos Dynamic Tracing Guide
.%O Chapter dtrace Provider
.%D 2008
.%U https://illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-dtrace.html
.Re
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An Mateusz Piotrowski Aq Mt 0mp@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh CAVEATS
The
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR
probe arguments cannot be accessed through the typed
.Va args[]
array.
.Pp
.Xr dtrace 1
will not fire the
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR
probe recursively.
If an error occurs in one of the action statements of the
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR ,
then
.Xr dtrace 1
will abort further processing of
the
.Nm dtrace Ns Cm :::ERROR
probe's actions.