[PATCH] itrace spin lock fix

David Smith dsmith@redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 16:00:00 GMT 2008


Dave Nomura wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot about that.  The probe used to fire  because Frank had
> to disable the test because it was crashing.  I'm not sure what has
> changed that is preventing the itrace probe from firing.  I experimented
> a bit and found that if I added a uprobe that didn't do anything related
> to the itrace probe, then the itrace probe would fire.  This is going to
> take further study.  Any ideas on what might have changed?

I'm afraid you question is a bit too broad for me to answer.  As far as
the task_finder goes, some internals have changed to support the new
version of utrace, but the external interface hasn't changed.

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