LOCKSTAT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual LOCKSTAT(8)NAMElockstat — display kernel locking statistics
SYNOPSISlockstat [-ceflMmpstx] [-b nbuf] [-E event] [-F func] [-L lock]
[-N nlist] [-o file] [-T type] command ...
DESCRIPTION
The lockstat command enables system wide tracing of kernel lock events,
executes the specified command, and when finished reports statistics to
the user.
Tracing may be ended early by sending SIGINT (Ctrl-C) to the process
being executed by lockstat.
The lockstat pseudo-device driver must be present in the kernel, and the
lockstat command may only be used by the root user.
The options are as follows:
-b nbuf Adjust the number of trace buffers allocated by the kernel to
nbuf.
-c Report percentage of total events by count, and sort the out‐
put by number of events. The default is to key on event tim‐
ings.
-E event Limit tracing to one type of event. Use the -e option to list
valid events.
-e List valid event types for the -E option and exit.
-F func Limit tracing to locking operations performed within the spec‐
ified function. func must be the name of a valid function in
the kernel.
-f Trace only by calling functions; do not report on individual
locks.
-L lock Limit tracing to one lock. lock may either be the name of a
lock object in the kernel, or a kernel virtual address.
-l Trace only by lock; do not report on calling functions.
-M Merge lock addresses within unique objects.
-m Merge call sites within unique functions.
-N nlist Extract symbol information from the nlist file.
-o file Send output to the file named by file, instead of the standard
output (the default).
-p Show the average number of events and time spent per CPU. The
default is to show the total values. May be used in conjunc‐
tion with the -s option.
-s Show the average number of events per second, and the average
time spent per second. The default is to show the total val‐
ues.
-T type Limit tracing to one type of lock. Use the -t option to list
valid lock types.
-t List valid lock types for the -T option and exit.
-x Summarize events, and do not report on lock types.
FILES
/dev/lockstat lockstat control device
/dev/ksyms namelist
EXAMPLES
# lockstat-L uvm_pageqlock sleep 10
Elapsed time: 10.01 seconds.
-- Adaptive mutex spin
Total% Count Time/ms Lock Caller
------ ------- --------- ---------------------- ------------------------------
100.00 1281 0.78 uvm_pageqlock <all>
39.81 385 0.31 uvm_pageqlock uvm_fault_internal+11cc
30.98 358 0.24 uvm_pageqlock uvm_fault_internal+bb1
28.06 522 0.22 uvm_pageqlock uvm_anfree+132
0.51 5 0.00 uvm_pageqlock ubc_fault+28f
0.20 4 0.00 uvm_pageqlock uvm_fault_internal+12b6
0.18 2 0.00 uvm_pageqlock uao_detach_locked+58
0.11 2 0.00 uvm_pageqlock uvm_fault_internal+7d5
0.08 2 0.00 uvm_pageqlock ufs_balloc_range+160
0.07 1 0.00 uvm_pageqlock uvm_fault_internal+107b
DIAGNOSTICS
lockstat: incompatible lockstat interface version
The kernel device driver does not match the version of the lockstat com‐
mand.
lockstat: overflowed available kernel trace buffers
Increase the number of buffers using the -b option.
lockstat: ioctl: Invalid argument
The number of trace buffers is outside the minimum and maximum bounds set
by the kernel.
SEE ALSOps(1), systat(1), vmstat(1), iostat(8), pstat(8)HISTORY
The lockstat command appeared in NetBSD 4.0.
BSD March 21, 2009 BSD
