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.  
>
>Martin
>
>
>  
>
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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