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From: Da Zheng <zhengda1936@gmail.com>
To: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Turgis, Frederic" <f-turgis@ti.com>,
	 "systemtap@sourceware.org" <systemtap@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: error to run systemtap in an ARM platform
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2DCA44.4010007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2DA500.7090005@redhat.com>

On 07/25/11 10:16, William Cohen wrote:
> On 07/23/2011 06:55 PM, Zheng Da wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm still trying to fix the problem.
>> semantic error: failed to retrieve return value location for vfs_write
>> (/build/tegra2_seaboard/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-9999/work/chromeos-kernel-9999/fs/read_write.c):
>> identifier '$return' at read-write.stp:7:6
>>          source: 	if ($return>  0) {
>>                  	    ^
>> I'm pretty sure CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled, and in
>> /build/tegra2_seaboard/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-9999/work/chromeos-kernel-9999/build/tegra2_seaboard,
>> a binary file vmlinux is 57MB. It should contain the debug information.
>>
>> (cr) zhengda@zdpc
>> /build/tegra2_seaboard/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-9999/work/chromeos-k
>> ernel-9999/build/tegra2_seaboard $ ls -l vmlinux
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 zhengda portage 59419805 Jul 22 20:55 vmlinux
>>
>> How does systemtap use the debug information? When it compiles the
>> script, does it need to read the debug information from the kernel
>> image? or it needs to read the .obj files of the kernel?
>> Any ideas how to debug the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Da
> I wonder if this might be Bug 440059 - Missing return value locations support for ARM in elfutils backend
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440059
>
> How old is the version of elfutils you are using?
Problem is solved. I used a latest version of elfutils, and systemtap 
can compile the script now.

Thanks,
Da

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-15  0:58 Da Zheng
2011-07-15  9:43 ` Mark Wielaard
2011-07-15 20:00   ` Da Zheng
2011-07-15 20:15     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
     [not found]       ` <4E20A714.9020404@gmail.com>
2011-07-15 20:50         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-07-15 20:46     ` William Cohen
2011-07-15 21:29       ` Da Zheng
2011-07-16  0:23         ` Turgis, Frederic
2011-07-18 14:13           ` William Cohen
2011-07-18 19:02             ` Da Zheng
2011-07-18 20:10               ` William Cohen
2011-07-18 20:18                 ` William Cohen
2011-07-18 20:41                 ` Da Zheng
2011-07-23 22:56                   ` Zheng Da
2011-07-24  1:57                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-07-24 16:10                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-07-25 10:04                     ` Mark Wielaard
2011-07-25 19:34                       ` Da Zheng
2011-07-25 15:46                     ` William Cohen
2011-07-25 19:36                       ` Da Zheng
2011-07-25 20:46                         ` Mark Wielaard
2011-07-25 17:17                     ` William Cohen
2011-07-25 19:56                       ` Da Zheng [this message]
2011-07-26 14:03                         ` William Cohen
2011-07-26 17:47                           ` Da Zheng
2011-07-19 11:38             ` Turgis, Frederic
2011-07-18 14:00         ` William Cohen

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