Would you mind filing a JIRA for this? That does sound like something bogus happening on the JVM/YourKit level, but this sort of diagnosis is sufficiently important that we should be resilient against it.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Will Benton <wi...@redhat.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Aaron Davidson" <ilike...@gmail.com> > > To: dev@spark.apache.org > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 5:21:10 PM > > Subject: Re: Profiling Spark tests with YourKit (or something else) > > > > Out of curiosity, what problems are you seeing with Utils.getCallSite? > > Aaron, if I enable call site tracking or CPU profiling in YourKit, many > (but not all) Spark test cases will NPE on the line filtering out > "getStackTrace" from the stack trace (this is Utils.scala:812 in the > current master). I'm not sure if this is a consequence of > Thread#getStackTrace including bogus frames when running instrumented or if > whatever instrumentation YourKit inserts relies on assumptions that don't > always hold for Scala code. > > > best, > wb >