Add tracing support for native method calls via Java FFM API#10718
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What Does This Do
Introduces automatic tracing of native (downcall) method invocations made through the Java Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API (available since JDK 22).
trace.native.methodsthat follows the samelibrary[method1,method2]/library[*]format astrace.methods, letting users opt-in to tracing specific native calls.Linker.downcallHandle(MemorySegment, ...)to wrap the producedMethodHandlewith span creation/finalization logic built using MethodHandles.tryFinally + MethodHandles.foldArguments — zero overhead when the handle is not traced.trace.native, componenttrace-ffm.lib_name.symbol_name. The lib_name is lowercased. Does not contain path or extensionA note about the library name used to resolve syscalls. Java use internally
libsyslookup. I don't know how portable is it. If yes we can strip this prefix. However, today, to say I'd like to tracestrlenfrom the libc the user needs to say that want to tracelibsyslookup[strlen]Motivation
R&D week
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