Profiling Kernel function blocks

[Domenico Di Leo]

I tried with systemtap 1.8, I can't change Kernel version.
and now I get the error message
Unknown symbol system_lookup_name during Pass 4.
The kernel is configured with CONFIG_KALLSUYMS_ALL=y.

On 8/2/2012 5:07 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 16:17 +0200, Domenico Di Leo wrote:
>> I was wondering if anybody has experienced a
>> hang of the entire OS when profiling
>> the functions of the kernel module.
>> In other words, when I run the following script
>> probe kernel.function("*@kernel/*.c").return{
>>       printf("%s  %s", threadindent(-1),probefunc());
>> }
>> the entire OS gets stuck.
>> I also tried with
>> probe kernel.function("*@kernel/*sched.c").return{
>>       printf("%s  %s", threadindent(-1),probefunc());
>> }
>> and after some printing the OS gets stuck again.
> This sounds like:
> Bug 2725 - function("*") probes sometimes crash&  burn
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2725
>
>> I'm using systemtap v1.4 and kernel 2.6.24 on Gentoo.
> Those are pretty old. You might want to try systemtap 1.8.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>


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