systemtap.base/kmodule.exp crashes on RHEL4-U2 x86-64 kernel

[Martin Hunt]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:09 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> Is anyone else exercising SystemTap on RHEL4-U2 x86-64 machines, 
> 2.6.9-22.ELsmp. This morning when I built the the latest snapshot of 
> systemtap (20051019) and ran some tests with it I mangaged to get the 
> kernel to crash on the systemtap.base/kmodule.exp.

Happens to me too. Works fine on i686.

> Looking through the generated code there is a big table at the end of 
> the generated code, stap_symbols. Is this used for something? I didn't 
> see it referenced in the generated code.

The runtime uses it to lookup symbols.

2005-10-06  Frank Ch. Eigler  <fche@elastic.org>

        PR 1332.
        * translate.cxx (emit_symbol_data): New function to transcribe
        a processed address->symbol lookup table, based
upon /proc/kallsyms.