Systemtap test on kernel-2.6.29-rc7-git2

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 15:43:00 GMT 2009


Pavan Naregundi <pavan.naregundi@in.ibm.com> writes:

> While running systemtap test suite run on kernel-2.6.29-rc7-git2, I ran
> into one problem related to sharedbuf.exp test case. Logs are as below
> [...]
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address
> 0xd000000003ee7408
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000b1454
> [...]
>     pc: c0000000000b1454: .load_module+0x1584/0x1708
> [...]

It would be helpful to get a disassembly of this kernel function.
Maybe its error-handling paths are buggy.  Try triggering the problem
with a hand-made module that has unresolved external references.

- FChE



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