NAME

dt — dynamic tracer

SYNOPSIS

pseudo-device dt

DESCRIPTION

System and application tracing can happen in the kernel. It has to be configured and enabled through the ioctl(2) interface exposed by the pseudo-device /dev/dt.

This device can only be opened when the kern.allowdt sysctl(2) variable is set.

FILES

/dev/dt

dynamic tracing device.

SEE ALSO

ioctl(2), bt(5), btrace(8)

HISTORY

The dt dynamic tracing mechanism first appeared in OpenBSD 6.7.