systemtap to trace source of syscall error?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com
Sun Dec 19 18:08:00 GMT 2010


Can systemtap be used to find the source (ie. file/line in the kernel)
where an error is "raised"?  I have a system call (utimensat) which
returns -EINVAL, but I have no idea where the error comes from.

Rich.

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