[Bug runtime/17831] kprobes_onthefly.exp fails on powerpc

[dsmith at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17831

David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |dsmith at redhat dot com
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com> ---
Fixed in commit d023209. This was a test case problem, not really a systemtap
problem. Originally the test case probed 'vfs.read' and 'vfs.read.return',
which maps to 'kernel.function("vfs_read")' and
'kernel.function("vfs_read").return'.

On 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64, you'll see the following:

====
# stap -l 'kernel.function("vfs_read").*'
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").call
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("add_rchar@include/linux/sched.h:2860")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("do_sync_read@fs/read_write.c:353")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("fsnotify_access@include/linux/fsnotify.h:194")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("inc_syscr@include/linux/sched.h:2870")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("rw_verify_area@fs/read_write.c:319")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").exported
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").return
====

But on 3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64, you'll see the following:

====
# stap -l 'kernel.function("vfs_read").*'
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").call
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("add_rchar@include/linux/sched.h:2858")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("do_sync_read@fs/read_write.c:353")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").callee("inc_syscr@include/linux/sched.h:2868")
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").exported
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").inline
kernel.function("vfs_read@fs/read_write.c:373").return
====

That inlined version of vfs_read caused the systemtap output to be different
(because of the extra probe).

So, to fix this I changed the test case script to probe
'kernel.function("vfs_read").call' and 'kernel.function("vfs_read").return'.
These should hopefully produce the same output on all kernels.

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