[Bug runtime/17270] uprobes_onthefly.exp causing hang on ppc64

Jonathan Lebon jlebon@redhat.com
Mon Sep 1 17:28:00 GMT 2014


Hey David,

Glad you found the cause of the issue.

> 1) The "stap module notifier triggered in unexpected state 3" message happens
> when the session is shutting down but the uprobe hasn't been unregistered
> yet.

This can also occur if there is still a work item left on the workqueue after
we changed to the STAP_SESSION_STOPPING state. This is probably why this
error message occurs more frequently during stress subtests.

> I think we can change the code to not output this message if we in the
> STAP_SESSION_STOPPING state.

Agreed!

Jonathan



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