Kernel crash when using systemtap

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:08:27PM -0700, Padmanabhan S N wrote:
> The stap .c file is about 16M in size and the generated .ko is about 13M.

Wow.

> [...]
> The script is very simple, but traces all functions in our module :
> [...]
> I did try removing the inline probes. But that doesnt help. 

OK.  (Remember that the .inline probes don't constitute a
nesting-trackable function entry, so thread_indent(1) is wrong.)

> Narrowing down the wildcards will limit the scope of tracing, right?

Yes.

> Is there anything else that I can try ?

Taking out the $$parms printing - or restricting it to some key
functions only - should dramatically shrink things.

- FChE