Queries on SystemTap - with focus on User Space debugging

[Manjusha Ajay]

Hi Josh,
> So try something like:
>
>  probe signal.send {
>    if (sig == 11 && sig_pid == target()) {
>      print_ubacktrace()
>    }
>  }
>
>

Tried filtering signal 11 in the probe 'signal.send' , but
print_ubacktrace() was giving me a kernel space backtrace.
Is it possible to get user-space backtrace from a kernel probe?

Manjusha

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 03:23 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:24:54PM +0530, Manjusha Ajay wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> probe kernel.function("send_sig") {
>>> if ($sig == 11 && p && task_pid(p) == target()) {
>>>      print_ubacktrace()
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Also got a warning when I ran the above script
>>>
>>>> stap -c "./test_segfault' test.stp
>>> WARNING:  read-only local variable 'p'  : identifier 'p' at test.stp:19:20
>>
>> Ah yes, an appropriate warning: I meant $p instead of p above,
>> since we're trying to extract the p parameter from the context
>> of the send_sig function call.
>>
>> It appears difficult to place an architecture-neutral kernel probe at
>> the point where a page fault is about to be declared a SIGSEGV type
>> error.  Might try kernel.function("force_sig_info") instead,
>> filtering on $sig==11.
>
> We have a predefined tapset that is supposed to cover all the different
> ways signals can be sent, documented thusly:
>
> /**
>  * probe signal.send - Signal being sent to a process
>  * Arguments:
>  * @sig: The number of the signal
>  * @sig_name: A string representation of the signal
>  * @sig_pid: The PID of the process receiving the signal
>  * @pid_name: The name of the signal recipient
>  * @si_code: Indicates the signal type
>  * @task: A task handle to the signal recipient
>  * @sinfo: The address of siginfo struct
>  * @shared: Indicates whether the signal is shared by the thread group
>  * @send2queue: Indicates whether the signal is sent to an existing
>  * sigqueue
>  * @name: The name of the function used to send out the signal
>  *
>  * Context:
>  *  The signal's sender.
>  *
>  */
>
> So try something like:
>
>  probe signal.send {
>    if (sig == 11 && sig_pid == target()) {
>      print_ubacktrace()
>    }
>  }
>
>