Re: some scripts from WarStories don't work on F10

[Dmitry Malichenko <dmitryml@gmail.com>]

Hi William,

I'm sorry for late reply.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> wrote:

> I went through the list below to see whether any of these scriopts listed had
> problems with the current F10 kernel and upcoming systemtap-0.9 rpms. This was
> run on a dual processor Intel Core 2 machine. It is possible that problems might
> be specific to the architecture being used. Which machine are these problems
> occuring on? i386? Uniprocessor or multiprocessor?
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux tandem 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:00:23 EST 2009
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>

I use laptop IBM T42. It is uniprocessor 1.7 GHz
"uname -a" says:
Linux laptop-fedora 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 15:12:04
EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

>>    * WSFunctionCallCount.stp
>>       link --- http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/WSFunctionCallCount?highlight=((WarStories))
>>         problem: hangs system
>
> This systemtap script will run for 30 seconds before printing any output
> ("timer.ms(30000)"). Alternatively a control-C will cause the script to printout
> the data and exit earlier. Did the machine require a reboot to clear this?  This
> script also ran without error on the test machine.
>

Yes, the machine requires a reboot. Script starts working, but prints
nothing and it hangs system immediately, mouse doesn't move. Sometimes
it's being rebooted by itself, sometimes it requires hard reboot from
me.

Thanks a lot,
Dmitry