[PATCH] itrace spin lock fix

Maynard Johnson maynardj@us.ibm.com
Fri Nov 7 16:38:00 GMT 2008


David Smith wrote:
> 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.
FYI . . . Dave is no longer available to work on this task, so I'll be taking it 
over.  It will take me some time to come up to speed.  I just didn't want you 
all to think that this patch submission was being dropped or neglected.

Thanks.
-Maynard Johnson
> 



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