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RE: kernel crashed when probe_start failed
- From: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
- To: "Mao, Bibo" <bibo dot mao at intel dot com>, <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:14:20 -0700
- Subject: RE: kernel crashed when probe_start failed
On Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:36 AM, bibo,mao wrote:
> Hi,
> I use latest systemtap to probe multiple function, and system will
> crash if register_kprobe for one function fails. I checked systemtap
> source code, in function _stp_handle_start(), if probe_start( )
> return < 0, _stp_exit_called will be equal 1. So that _stp_kill_time
> will never be called in function _stp_cleanup_and_exit(), but
> _stp_init_time is ever called.
This seems to be the cause of bug 3215:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3215
Martin just checked in a fix, so let us know if you still see problems.
Josh