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Hi, as a follow on from my earlier post on adding dynamic instrumentation to mozilla, just wanted to let you all know that we have now put up a patch for Brendan Gregg's Javascript probes that will apply on top of the infrastructure patch we posted earlier

All of the probes listed in Brendan's Blog on JavaScript and DTrace will work:

Brendan's Javascript blog

Demo of the Javascript probes in action

But we have changed the namespace to be in sync with the other mozilla probes, so you will need to change the probe names in the script appropriately, for example:

Change: javascript*:::function-entry to trace_mozilla*:::js_function-entry

Applying the Javascript patch

Follow the instructions below to apply the Mozilla Infrastructure and layout patch:

Adding Dtrace probes to Mozilla

Then apply the Mozilla Javascript probe patch:

• Apply mozilla-js.diff downloaded from bug 370906

$ cd mozilla
$ gpatch -p0  -i mozilla-js.diff

Rebuild mozilla as described above, not forgetting to run ./configure –enable-dtrace before hand. Test the probes have been applied by running the newly patched firefox-bin and listing the probes as described below.

Available Javascript Probes

To list the available javascript probes once the patch is applied and mozilla rebuilt with --enable-dtrace, just type:

$ cd mozilla/dist/bin
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
$ ./firefox-bin &

$ dtrace -n
'trace_mozilla*:::js*' -l

ID  PROVIDER             MODULE                  FUNCTION              NAME
35  trace_mozilla1815    libmozjs.so             jsdtrace_execute_done js_execute-done
35  trace_mozilla1815    libmozjs.so             jsdtrace_execute_done jsdtrace_execute_start
35  trace_mozilla1815    libmozjs.so             jsdtrace_execute_done js_execute-done
    : 

Example

js_funcalls.d

This script counts all of the javascript function calls that are being executed by firefox and lists the originating file for the javascript code, listed under FUNC and FILE respectively. You could use a predicate to exclude javascript being used by the browser's chrome UI if you wished, but this simple script just counts all of the function calls. See Brendan's blog for lots more examples

#pragma
D option quiet

dtrace:::BEGIN
{
  printf("Tracing...Hit Ctrl-C to end.\n";
}

trace_mozilla*:::js_function-entry
{
  @funcs[basename(copyinstr(arg0)),
  copyinstr(arg2)] = count();
}

dtrace:::END 
{
  printf("%-32s %-36s %8s\n", "FILE", "FUNC","CALLS";
  printa("%-32s %-36s %@8d\n", @funcs);
}

$
dtrace -s js_funcalls.d

FILE           FUNC                             CALLS
autocomplete.xml        createEvent               1
autocomplete.xml        dispatchEvent             1              
    :                                
browser.xml             QueryInterface           130
nsSessionStore.js       QueryInterface           987
nsSessionStore.js       getNext                  988
nsSessionStore.js       hasMoreElements          990