Hi @all,
I felt the need to look into my ZFS ARC, but DTRACE provided misleading
(i.e., wrong) output (on i386, 11.3-RELEASE):
# dtrace -Sn 'arc-available_memory { printf("%x %x", arg0, arg1); }'
DIFO 0x286450a0 returns D type (integer) (size 8)
OFF OPCODE INSTRUCTION
00: 29010601 ldgs DT_VAR(262), %r1 ! DT_VAR(262) = "arg0"
01: 23000001 ret %r1
NAME ID KND SCP FLAG TYPE
arg0 262 scl glb r D type (integer) (size 8)
DIFO 0x286450f0 returns D type (integer) (size 8)
OFF OPCODE INSTRUCTION
00: 29010701 ldgs DT_VAR(263), %r1 ! DT_VAR(263) = "arg1"
01: 23000001 ret %r1
NAME ID KND SCP FLAG TYPE
arg1 263 scl glb r D type (integer) (size 8)
dtrace: description 'arc-available_memory ' matched 1 probe
0 14 none:arc-available_memory 2fb000 2
0 14 none:arc-available_memory 4e000 2
1 14 none:arc-available_memory ffffb000 2
1 14 none:arc-available_memory ffffb000 2
1 14 none:arc-available_memory ffffb000 2
1 14 none:arc-available_memory 19000 2
0 14 none:arc-available_memory d38000 2
# dtrace -n 'arc-available_memory { printf("%d %d", arg0, arg1); }'
1 14 none:arc-available_memory 81920 5
1 14 none:arc-available_memory 69632 5
1 14 none:arc-available_memory 4294955008 5
1 14 none:arc-available_memory 4294955008 5
The arg0 Variable is shown here obviousely as an unsigned int32 value. But
in fact, the probe in the sourcecode in arc.c is a signed int64:
DTRACE_PROBE2(arc__available_memory, int64_t, lowest, int, r);
User @shkhin in the forum pointed me to check the bare dtrace program,
unattached to the kernel code:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/dtrace-treats-int64_t-as-uint32_t-on-i386.73223/post-446517
And there everything appears correct.
So two questions:
1. can anybody check and confirm this happening?
2. any idea what could be wrong here? (The respective variable in arc.c
bears the correct 64bit negative value, I checked that - and otherwise the
ARC couldn't shrink.)
rgds,
PMc
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