[DTrace-devel] Newest DTrace development on GitHub

Kris Van Hees kris.van.hees at oracle.com
Wed Oct 23 21:13:14 PDT 2019


Further information about the development of DTrace (v2) can be found on the
following Wiki page on GitHub:

	https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/wiki/DTrace-v2:-based-on-eBPF-and-other-Linux-kernel-facilities

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 02:42:04AM -0400, Kris Van Hees wrote:
> The ongoing development of DTrace (v2) can be found on the 2.0-branch-dev of
> the oracle/dtrace-utils repo on GitHub.  The URL is:
> 
> 	https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/tree/2.0-branch-dev
> 
> This branch shows the ongoing development of converting DTrace to be based on
> eBPF.  Keep in mind that this is a development branch so I will be pushing
> changes to it as development occurs and force-pushes are likely to happen at
> times.  In its current state, the compiler is generating BPF code but it is
> not being loaded into the kernel because work needs to continue first on the
> library of BPF functions that generated code depends on.  Support for this is
> currently being added and will be pushed in the next few days.
> 
> Comments of any kind are welcome, as is help with the ongoing project.  I plan
> on including some more documentation/design details in the tree to describe
> the design and implementation plan.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 	Kris



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