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[Bug tapsets/12411] New: Markers using %rbx register incorrectly incorrectly masked to 8.


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12411

           Summary: Markers using %rbx register incorrectly incorrectly
                    masked to 8.
           Product: systemtap
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: tapsets
        AssignedTo: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
        ReportedBy: wcohen@redhat.com


When attempting to build an executable of Ruby that includes systemtap marker
using SystemTap 1.4 some arguments for markers were truncated to 8 bits in
size.

The problem is caused by the
sdt_uprobe_var_expanding_visitor::get_register_width() function "%rbx" as being
a bytes sized (8 bit) register rather that a full 64-bit registers.


To replicate problem on rhel6 or fedora:

1) install systemtap-1.4 on the machine
2a) make sure that the systemtap dtrace is available in /usr/bin/dtrace
2b) make sure that the uprobes modules is available, as root:

  make -C /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/uprobes

3) download the 
http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/ruby-1.8.7.299-6.el6.dtrace_4.src.rpm
3) build and install the ruby rpms
4) Verify that probes are available with:

 stap  -L  'process("/usr/lib64/libruby.so.1.8").mark("*")

5) Use the following script to demonstrate the problem 

 stap  -e  'probe
process("/usr/lib64/libruby.so.1.8").function("rb_class2name").return
{printf("$return=0x%x %s\n", $return, user_string($return))} probe
process("/usr/lib64/libruby.so.1.8").mark("function__entry"){printf("$arg1=0x%x\n",
$arg1)}'

in another window run a ruby program for example

 ruby ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/ruby-1.8.7.299/ruby-1.8.7-p299/sample/biorhythm.rb 

See something like the following out from the systemtap script where $arg1 is
just the low 8 bits of the pointer:

$return=0x9d4450 Hash
$arg1=0x50
$return=0x9c5c30 String
$arg1=0x30

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