Re: Adding new option to ktrace

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From
Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Date
5 Sep 2005 18:24:28
Subject
Re: Adding new option to ktrace
Message-ID
431C8D5B.7080309@samsco.org


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Nikhil Dharashivkar wrote:
> Hi,
> i want to hack the ktrace system call. Basically, I want to monitor
> scsi disk IO through dastrategy() routine.
> It seems that kern_ktrace.c implements different functions for
> ktrace options like -tc / -ti ... etc (see man page). So, is it
> possible to add new option for disk IO with new structure object
> containing disk io information which will be pass to
> ktr_submittrequest thr' ktr_request structure.
> Will data will be written correctly in ktrace.out and will
> kdump analyze that ?
>
>
>

What are you trying to monitor? Would the existing devstat interface
work?

Scott


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