Re: Testing insn.block probe point uncovers possible utrace bug

2009-03-31 Thread Roland McGrath
The bug is in your module's unconditional use of UTRACE_*STEP. It's documented that it's invalid to use them unless arch_has_*_step() has returned true. (The utrace_resume_action description refers you to utrace_control(), where this is documented.) It's a bug to use these at all when the corres

Testing insn.block probe point uncovers possible utrace bug

2009-03-31 Thread Maynard Johnson
Hi, In regards to the instruction tracing probe points that were added to SystemTap last year, Frank had asked whether the block-trace functionality (.insn.block) is working. I tested this on x86_64/Fedora 10 and, indeed, it does work. However, when testing on a ppc64 system, it failed terribl

Re: utrace bug

2007-10-25 Thread Srinivasa Ds
Srinivasa Ds wrote: Hi I was executing Alexey's testcase cited in (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117128445312243&w=2) to test the utrace and system crashed on pressing ctr+c. This leads me to suspect a possible issue with the usage of RCU in utrace. Please let me know your commen

utrace bug

2007-10-16 Thread Srinivasa Ds
Hi I was executing Alexey's testcase cited in (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117128445312243&w=2) to test the utrace and system crashed on pressing ctr+c. Environment: 2.6.23-rc7, ppc64. 6:mon> e cpu 0x6: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0002510b650] pc: c038b0f8: ._spin