Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:50:26 -0400
>> From: Brad Spencer <brad%samwise.nat.eldar.org@localhost>
>> 
>> With a DOMU kernel compiled with KDTRACE_HOOKS I get the following with
>> either of those dtrace probes on the DOMU:
>> 
>> dtrace -n 'sdt:xen:clock:, sdt:xen:hardclock:, sdt:xen:timecounter: { printf("%d %d %d %d %d %d %d", arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7) }'
>> dtrace: invalid probe specifier sdt:xen:clock:, sdt:xen:hardclock:, sdt:xen:timecounter: { printf("%d %d %d %d %d %d %d", arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7) }: "/usr/lib/dtrace/psinfo.d", line 46: syntax error near "u_int"
>
> Can you please file a PR about that, and pass `-x nolibs' to dtrace in
> the mean time?
>
> dtrace -x nolibs -n 'sdt:xen:clock:...'

Ya, a PR can be filed.  Even when I did Solaris / SmartOS for $DAYJOB I
never really used dtrace all that often.  I see it is very powerful, but
my paths never crossed much with it.


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