Re: Compilation error when doing user space probe on FC9.

[Wenji Huang <wenji dot huang at oracle dot com>]

Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Hi Wenji, 
> I have run uprobes based probes on 2.6.23.*, 2.6.24.*  and 2.6.27.* based
> kernels. 
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards
> Srikar
>
>
>
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:27:03AM +0800, Wenji Huang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Got compilation error when doing userspace probe on FC9. But
> > > "probe process.syscall" works fine.
> > >
> > > $ uname -r
> > > 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
> > You really need a newer kernel!
> >
> > F9 currently is updated to 2.6.27.5 IIRC.
> >
> > Ananth
Yes, this error is specific to 2.6.25 Fedora shipment kernel. Works fine
on 2.6.28-rc7+latest utrace patch. But got warning on 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 
kernel.

In file included from 
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes_arch.c:2,
                 from 
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes.c:2795,
                 from 
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/uprobes.c:8:
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes_x86.c: In 
function ‘handle_riprel_insn':
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes_x86.c:420: 
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘constant_test_bit' from incompatible 
pointer type
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes_x86.c:420: 
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘variable_test_bit' from incompatible 
pointer type
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes_x86.c:423: 
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘constant_test_bit' from incompatible 
pointer type
/usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes/../uprobes2/uprobes_x86.c:423: 
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘variable_test_bit' from incompatible 
pointer type


Regards,
Wenji