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Re: Listing probe alias resolution failures
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- To: patm at pdx dot edu
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:33:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: Listing probe alias resolution failures
- References: <20070515141427.d90m5pfzj4w0owok@webmail.pdx.edu>
patm@pdx.edu wrote:
With (version 0.5.14 built 2007-04-30) of systemtap and kernel 2.6.19.7
(i386), there are a lot (~220) of failures in the tapset like the
following:
semantic error: no match for probe point while resolving probe point
vm.write_shared_copy
To get a list of all of these, I pulled out some code from the systemtap
GUI and made a quick standalone java program "listprobes", it works like
the following:
I'm not a java programmer, but it appears like you might be expecting
every function listed in the tapsets to be resolvable on a particular
kernel. This isn't the case. Let's take an easy example - the probe
alias syscall.open (in tapset/syscalls2.stp):
=============
probe syscall.open =
kernel.function("sys_open") ?,
kernel.function("compat_sys_open") ?,
kernel.function("sys32_open") ?
{
...
}
=============
This probe alias looks for "sys_open" first, then if it doesn't exist
looks for "compat_sys_open", then looks for "sys32_open". If "sys_open"
exists in your kernel, it isn't an error that "compat_sys_open" and
"sys32_open" do not exist.
In actual use, if you've gotten "no match for probe point" errors let us
know and we'll try to fix them.
--
David Smith
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