Runtime probe example causes oops
Hien Nguyen
hien@us.ibm.com
Wed Jul 13 16:53:00 GMT 2005
Martin Hunt wrote:
>os_timer was written by Charles. I hadn't really looked at it. It
>works fine on my Pentium M running RHEL4 with the latest patches. Well,
>it doesn't crash but the data it collects is not right. I'm a bit
>concerned that the oops shows it was in the runtime, but I cannot see
>how it could have crashed at that particular point. Do you always get
>the Oops? If so, could you try putting some printks in
>_stp_symbol_sprint() in sym.c? The Oops says
>_stp_symbol_print() called kallsyms_lookup() and that is where it
>crashed.
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>Martin
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I also tried the other probes under the probes directory and had same
results. I am going to do what you suggest to figure out what is going on.
Thanks, Hien.
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