[BUG?]3.0-rc4+ftrace+kprobe: set kprobe at instruction 'stwu' lead to system crash/freeze

Yong Zhang yong.zhang0 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 17:08:32 EST 2011


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
<ananth at in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Certain functions are off limits for probing -- look for __kprobe

Yup.

> annotations in the kernel. Some such functions are arch specific, but
> show_interrupts() would definitely not be one of them. It works fine on
> my (64bit) test box.
>
> At this time, I think your best bet is to work with the eldk folks to
> narrow down the problem.

I'll give a try :)

> Given the current set of data, I am inclined to
> think it could be an eldk bug, not a kernel one.

Maybe, but the fact is if I don't use kprobe, things works
very well.

I'll be back if there is any update :)

Thanks,
Yong

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