[Bug translator/5892] New: support "stap -r KERNEL-BUILD-TREE"

[Bug translator/5892] New: support "stap -r KERNEL-BUILD-TREE"

[fche at redhat dot com]

There's a need to allow users who build their own kernels in oddball directories
to sic systemtap at them.  This may go beyond $SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH.

While at it, we could drop the "-r REV implies -p4" heuristic, as someone
attempting to run a crosscompiled module will get a failure message pretty
soon anyway.

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           Summary: support "stap -r KERNEL-BUILD-TREE"
           Product: systemtap
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: translator
        AssignedTo: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: fche at redhat dot com


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[Bug translator/5892] support "stap -r KERNEL-BUILD-TREE"

[fche at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-09-29 23:51 -------
This includes:

* looking there for the kernel-devel makefiles etc.
* not assuming -p4; consider removing that logic altogether



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------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-10-03 15:06 -------
*** Bug 6581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Bug translator/5892] support stap against plain KERNEL-BUILD-TREE

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------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-11-05 20:20 -------
The interplay with $SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH needs attention.
A recent change allowed that environment variable to point to a
kernel build tree path, but that's not quite right either, as
we need a real search path to allow user-space debuginfo etc.

Plus we need the kernel version value too, for passing
to tapset predicates, so we can't just replace the -r VERSION
with -r PATH, unless VERSION can be easily pulled out of the
build tree.  (All mentions of /lib/modules/... in the code
would need to be audited/parametrized.)

The kernel build tree path is special in that we need to refer
to it not just to fetch debuginfo/markers/etc., but also to hook up
buildrun.cxx's (kernel-devel) paths to it.  So I think we need a
separate option or environment variable:
   %  stap -B KERNEL_BUILD_TREE  [...]
where `-r VERSION' would automatically computed if able, and
$SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH goes back to being a plain
colon-separated search path of (sub)directories.


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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
            Summary|support "stap -r KERNEL-    |support stap against plain
                   |BUILD-TREE"                 |KERNEL-BUILD-TREE


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