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Re: kernel summit session on systemtap


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:41:15AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> - Stability.  Kernel crashes are an instant and long-lasting turn-off,
>   even to the point of mean laughter.  We need to urgently and deeply
>   stress-test and robustify our kernel-side foundations (kprobes,
>   utrace, uprobes, runtime).

To clarify for those who weren't there, the reason for the laughter is
that when Arjan was demonstrating the kerneloops.org project, and at
the time a crash in the utrace was #6 on the highest number of kernel
Oops reported to kerneloops.org in the preceeding seven days.  I just
checked, and the crash in utrace now has the distinction of being #3
on the most popular kernel oops for the past seven days.  So the
comments where along the lines of Fedora merged *what*?
Unfortunately, utrace making the top-10 hit parade on kerneloops.org
probably didn't help its reputation of being something that should be
merged, at least in the short term.

I assume the problem is already known and fixed, but if not:

	http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=utrace_control

						- Ted


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