From: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
To: SystemTAP <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Problem with 32-bit negative return values
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45281A9E.1050207@us.ibm.com> (raw)
I'm trying to use the return value from sock_recvmsg() to determine how
many bytes are received. It ignores negative return values (errors).
probe kernel.function("sock_recvmsg").return
{
p = pid()
execname[p] = execname()
user[p] = uid()
sk_pid[p] ++
sk_rx[p] <<< $return > 0 ? $return : 0
printf("RECV %d\n", $return)
}
On x86, the negative values are correctly interpreted and printed:
RECV 1368
RECV -11
RECV 1368
RECV -11
RECV 1368
RECV -11
RECV 1368
RECV -11
But on x86_64, the negative values are interpreted and printed as large
positive values:
RECV 1440
RECV 4294967285
RECV 1440
RECV 4294967285
RECV 1440
RECV 4294967285
This completely messes up the sk_rx aggregation. It looks like 32-bit
negative integers are not being correctly cast to 64-bit negative integers.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
- Mike
next reply other threads:[~2006-10-07 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-07 21:23 Mike Mason [this message]
[not found] <452BD98F.8050602@us.ibm.com>
2006-10-10 17:52 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-10-10 18:28 ` Roland McGrath
2006-10-10 20:25 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-10-10 20:41 ` Mike Mason
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