Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:21:33 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support | From | Steve Capper <> |
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On 4 December 2014 at 02:48, David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> wrote: > On 12/03/14 20:16, William Cohen wrote: > > [...] > >> >> The perf issue seems to be independent and can be reproduced without using >> any kprobe support. I need to get a simple reproducer and mention it on the >> linux-perf-user list. >> >> -Will >> > > > OK, my confusion came from all the different things perf can use. I have > not yet been able to reproduce the "perf stat" failure, but I do see the > failure with Steve's example using tracepoints. I had thought that was > using kprobes, but apparently it just uses tracepoints. These look like two > different failures to me: One related to tracepoints, and one in the PMU > driver. > > Since this seems unrelated to kprobes I don't plan on pursuing these > particular problems. > > -dl >
Sorry for the late reply...
The example I had was: echo "p:memcpy memcpy %x2" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events perf record -e kprobes:memcpy -a sleep 5
[then crash due to IRQs being unexpectedly disabled in the ext4 code]
Isn't that a kprobe problem?
Cheers, -- Steve
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