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Re: Kernel hang with latest snapshot


David Boreham wrote:

Sorry, I didn't see your reply when I was sending this out. I will take a look at iosyscall.open.entry, and will check the remaining codes of potential invalid pointer access. Thanks.

I see crashes with every io syscall I've tried. It would take quite a while to
try every one (need to reboot every time). open, read, write, close for sure crash for me.



:( I tried to probe using addevent.iosyscall and they seems well for me. My testing environment:
IBM T43 thinkpad with Pentium-M 2.0
Fedora Core5 updated to the latest
gcc 4.1.1 20060525
elfutils 0.124-0.1, rpm packages are from Red Hat ftp server
latest SystemTap
running command: stap -e "probe addevent.iosyscall {}" -bMv


You said almost every io syscall will crash the system, but I am sure it's not LKET problem. It should be some more low level problem, like runtime and kprobes. Could you tell me a little more about your testing environment, and more important, the workload you imposed when probing using LKET, so that I can try to reproduce the problem. One reason I am thinking my system didn't crash may be that my workload is not big enough and didn't get the potential problem exposed. Thanks

- Guanglei


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