PATCH: stap fails if !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER && !CONFIG_UTRACE

Mark Wielaard mjw@redhat.com
Thu Jun 10 13:52:00 GMT 2010


On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 06:57 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > 
> > AFAICT the autoconf test should result in STAPCONF_UPROBE_GET_PC=0 for the
> > case where CONFIG_UTRACE is unset since UPROBES requires UTRACE.
> > 
> 
> Only uprobes embedded in SystemTap(i.e part of systemtap tree) has
> uprobe_get_pc.  Uprobes thats part of fche's utrace-ext tree and the one
> that I post to LKML dont have uprobe_get_pc.

Is there a reason it isn't? It seems necessary for unwinding through
kretprobe instaces. See bug #11641 for example.

Cheers,

Mark



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