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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Stress testing - all functions
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mk6aaypy8.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CBDB88BFD06F7F408399DBCF8776B3DC06D3C343@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>


joshua.i.stone wrote:

> I just added a new stress test that tries to run probes on all kernel
> functions that start with the same letter.  The test script is in:
>     tests/testsuite/systemtap.stress/all_kernel_functions.stp

Good stuff.

> [...]
> d*: system reboots - there was no OOPS or BUG or anything printed to the
> console.

Given time, one can try d[a-m]* and d[n-z]* to recursively subdivide
the namespace.  It would be great if this were done automatically.  (A
full search would of course take lots of time due to reboots.)

> The two that failed in a* and c* are both functions that are
> decorated with __exit.  Perhaps the translator needs to disallow
> __exit functions, just as it disallows __init?

That's right, for routines that are linked into vmlinux (not in a
module).

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-01  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-01  1:39 Stone, Joshua I
2006-04-01  2:44 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2006-04-03 19:21 Stone, Joshua I

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