kernel crashed when probe_start failed

bibo,mao bibo_mao@linux.intel.com
Wed Sep 27 02:13:00 GMT 2006


The cvs tree works for me now and I do not see the problem again.

thanks
bibo,mao

Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:36 AM, bibo,mao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I use latest systemtap to probe multiple function, and system will
>> crash if register_kprobe for one function fails. I checked systemtap
>> source code, in function _stp_handle_start(), if probe_start( )
>> return < 0, _stp_exit_called will  be equal 1. So that _stp_kill_time
>> will never be called in function _stp_cleanup_and_exit(), but
>> _stp_init_time is ever called.     
> 
> This seems to be the cause of bug 3215:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3215
> 
> Martin just checked in a fix, so let us know if you still see problems.
> 
> 
> Josh
> 



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