Using dtrace to print kernel struct argument

[Farhan Khan]

Hi all,

TLDR; I want to print out a complicated struct in a human readable way dtrace. I could manually add in the struct, but there are several nested structs and that gets messy and difficult to replicate very quickly. How does one do this?

Detailed: I am trying to display the print a structure that is returned by the kernel function usbd_get_endpoint. The background is because I am running usbd_transfer_setup but getting an error condition and do not understand why, so I want to instrument usbd_get_endpoint, which is called by usbd_transfer_setup.

I want to print out the struct usb_endpoint in a human readable format. It is located in sys/dev/usb/usbdi.h

Currently I have done this:

#include <sys/dev/usb/usbdi.h>

fbt::usbd_get_endpoint:return
{
    printf("Exit %d\n", arg0);
}

Here are my outputs:

[farhan@freebsddev ~]$ sudo dtrace -s usbd_get_endpoint.d
dtrace: failed to compile script usbd_get_endpoint.d: invalid control directive: #include
[farhan@freebsddev ~]$ sudo dtrace -C -s usbd_get_endpoint.d
dtrace: failed to compile script usbd_get_endpoint.d: line 1: invalid type combination

Is including header files possible in dtrace? If so, how is this done?

 

[covacat]

i have no idea but you may have to pipe it thru cpp first like with other stuff (like dtc)

 

[Farhan Khan]

i have no idea but you may have to pipe it thru cpp first like with other stuff (like dtc)

What does that mean?

 

[covacat]

What does that mean?

that you use cpp(1) as a preprocessor (c compilers do that automatically)
again, don't know if applies to dtrace

 

[Andriy]

You don't need to include any headers into your script. All types used in kernel are already available via kernel's CTF.