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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Zheng Da <zhengda1936@gmail.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	"Turgis, Frederic" <f-turgis@ti.com>,
	       "systemtap@sourceware.org" <systemtap@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: error to run systemtap in an ARM platform
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mhb6bvew6.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0msjpwv3t8.fsf@fche.csb> (Frank Ch. Eigler's message of "Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:57:07 -0400")


I wrote:

>> 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) {
>>                 	    ^ 
>> [...]
>> Any ideas how to debug the problem?
>
> In this case, I might try focusing the debugger on the function
> arm_return_value_location(), probably in elfutils' libebl_arm.so.

For example, you could use a debugger.  Or, with a native
user-space-capable kernel, run stap on stap:

stap .../examples/general/varwatch.stp \
     'process("/usr/lib*/elfutils/libebl_*.so").statement("*return_value*@*:*")' \
      '$$vars$' \
      -c 'stap -p2 read-write.stp'

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-24 16:10 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 [this message]
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
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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