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From: Kevin Stafford <kevinrs@us.ibm.com>
To: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: What can I access in return probe
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4390E936.6020302@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4390E8AA.1070105@us.ibm.com>

Kevin Stafford wrote:

> Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering if I can access arguments in my return probe ?
>>  
>>
> No, by the time the return probe fires, the stack has been torn down 
> and thus
> have no reference to you arguments, which causes the deref fault. 
> There have
> been a couple of proposed solutions to this problem. See
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1382
>
>> And also, how do I access return value ?
>>  
>>
> Tapset function retval() should do this for you.
> See /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/return.stp
>
>>
>> Whats wrong here ?
>>
>> # stap -g pagecache.stp
>> ERROR: pointer dereference fault near identifier 'page_cache_pages' at
>> pagecache.stp:8:2
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Badari
>>  
>>


-- 
Kevin Stafford
DES 2 | MS 2M3
Beaverton - OR
Linux Technology Center
IBM Systems & Technology
Phone: 1-503-578-3039
Email: kevinrs@us.ibm.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-03  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-03  0:07 Badari Pulavarty
     [not found] ` <4390E8AA.1070105@us.ibm.com>
2005-12-03  0:42   ` Kevin Stafford [this message]
2005-12-03  1:35 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-12-17 23:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-19  4:45   ` Badari Pulavarty

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