From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6409 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2008 16:38:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 6273 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Nov 2008 16:38:09 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com (HELO e3.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.143) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:37:21 +0000 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA7GbIiI017682 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:37:19 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id mA7GbIaG153402 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:37:18 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mA7GbIks020354 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:37:18 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (9-10-86-142.rchland.ibm.com [9.10.86.142]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id mA7GbHME020281; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:37:18 -0500 Message-ID: <49146EBF.7060409@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:38:00 -0000 From: Maynard Johnson Reply-To: maynardj@us.ibm.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Smith CC: dcnltc@us.ibm.com, systemtap@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] itrace spin lock fix References: <48FFC1D4.7000801@us.ibm.com> <4901F5E4.7030200@redhat.com> <49026917.7010808@us.ibm.com> <4905C3E9.1020401@redhat.com> <490731FC.6030702@us.ibm.com> <4907370A.1020703@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4907370A.1020703@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q4/txt/msg00289.txt.bz2 David Smith wrote: > Dave Nomura wrote: >> Sorry, I forgot about that. The probe used to fire because Frank had >> to disable the test because it was crashing. I'm not sure what has >> changed that is preventing the itrace probe from firing. I experimented >> a bit and found that if I added a uprobe that didn't do anything related >> to the itrace probe, then the itrace probe would fire. This is going to >> take further study. Any ideas on what might have changed? > > I'm afraid you question is a bit too broad for me to answer. As far as > the task_finder goes, some internals have changed to support the new > version of utrace, but the external interface hasn't changed. FYI . . . Dave is no longer available to work on this task, so I'll be taking it over. It will take me some time to come up to speed. I just didn't want you all to think that this patch submission was being dropped or neglected. Thanks. -Maynard Johnson >