Re: did anyone succeed to use systemtap on SLES9-SP3 ?

["Jose R. Santos" <jrs at us dot ibm dot com>]

Gui,Jian wrote:

> I'm trying to use systemtap on SLES9-SP3/ppc64 for some reason. Its 
> kernel is 2.6.5-7.244.
>
> I installed it successfully but when I ran
>  stap -vv -e 'probe begin { log("here") }',
> it always failed during the compilation for the lack of 
> <linux/hardirq.h>.
>
> This file is included in "runtime.h", but it doesn't exist in 
> 2.6.5-7.244.
> Another header file <asm/hardirq.h> is there, but it cannot make 
> systemtap work either.
>  
Kprobes in 2.6.5 are a backport from later kernels and the differences 
between 2.6.5 and 2.6.9 are substantial.  Im not surprise that SystemTap 
does not work with stock SLES9 kernels.

> Did anyone ever succeed to use systemtap in SLES9-SP3? or any idea 
> about this?
>
>  
I tried installing SystemTap on SLES9 with newer kernels a while ago and 
found that it doesn't work at all even if you use a more modern kernel 
from kernel.org.  It seem like a problem with elfutils and gcc-3.3.  I 
verified this using my Debian box and compiling  SystemTap with various 
compilers.  Elfutils seem to require gcc-3.4 or higher in order to work 
correctly and SLES9 uses gcc-3.3.3.

After a while I just gave up.

-JRS