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TSLOG(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual TSLOG(4)
NAME tslog - Boot-time event tracing facility
SYNOPSIS To compile this boot-time event tracing facility into the kernel, place the following line in the kernel configuration file:
option TSLOG
DESCRIPTION tslog is a boot-time event tracing facility. It is suitable for tracing recursive events based on function entries and exits. Its purpose is to ease pinpointing and reducing the overall FreeBSD boot time by generating detailed timing information.
tslog is able to trace the boot loader, kernel initialization, and userland processes.
In userland, it records the following details for each process ID:
- The timestamp of the fork(2) which creates the given process ID and the parent process ID.
- The path passed to execve(2), if any.
- The first path resolved by namei(9), if any.
- The timestamp of the exit(3) which terminates the process.
SYSCTL VARIABLES The following sysctl(8) variables are available:
debug.tslog Dump the tslog buffer of recorded loader and kernel event timestamps.
debug.tslog_user Dump the tslog buffer of recorded userland event timestamps.
FLAMEGRAPHS The tslog buffer dumps can be used to generate flamegraphs of the FreeBSD boot process for visual analysis. See https://github.com/cperciva/freebsd-boot-profiling for more information.
SEE ALSO dtrace(1), boottrace(4), ktr(4)
HISTORY tslog first appeared in FreeBSD 12.0. Support for tracing boot loaders and userland process was added in FreeBSD 14.0.
TSLOG vs. Boottrace tslog is oriented towards system developers while boottrace(4) is meant to be easy to use by system administrators. Both faciliities provide an overview of timing and resource usage of the boot process.
TSLOG vs. DTrace TSLOG vs. KTR ktr(4) has a couple of limitations which prevent it from being able to run at the start of the boot process. In contrast, tslog is designed for logging timestamped events for boot profiling.
AUTHORS tslog was written by Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>.
This manual page was written by Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 1, 2022 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11