From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
To: David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@linaro.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@linaro.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:21:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPvkgC3=KKKMa1hWdOYOcV7D7kQSLtnNnXLBB64_P-V+_qUwTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547FCB73.1010707@linaro.org>
On 4 December 2014 at 02:48, David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 12/03/14 20:16, William Cohen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> The perf issue seems to be independent and can be reproduced without using
>> any kprobe support. I need to get a simple reproducer and mention it on the
>> linux-perf-user list.
>>
>> -Will
>>
>
>
> OK, my confusion came from all the different things perf can use. I have
> not yet been able to reproduce the "perf stat" failure, but I do see the
> failure with Steve's example using tracepoints. I had thought that was
> using kprobes, but apparently it just uses tracepoints. These look like two
> different failures to me: One related to tracepoints, and one in the PMU
> driver.
>
> Since this seems unrelated to kprobes I don't plan on pursuing these
> particular problems.
>
> -dl
>
Sorry for the late reply...
The example I had was:
echo "p:memcpy memcpy %x2" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
perf record -e kprobes:memcpy -a sleep 5
[then crash due to IRQs being unexpectedly disabled in the ext4 code]
Isn't that a kprobe problem?
Cheers,
--
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 6:32 [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support David Long
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support David Long
2014-11-18 13:28 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2014-11-21 4:28 ` David Long
2014-11-18 14:38 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 14:39 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 14:56 ` Will Deacon
2014-11-19 11:21 ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2014-11-19 11:25 ` Will Deacon
2014-11-19 14:55 ` David Long
2014-11-20 5:10 ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2014-11-26 6:46 ` David Long
2014-11-26 10:09 ` Will Deacon
2014-12-22 10:10 ` Pratyush Anand
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] arm64: Kprobes instruction simulation support David Long
2014-11-18 14:43 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] arm64: Add kernel return probes support(kretprobes) David Long
2014-11-18 14:50 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module David Long
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature David Long
2014-11-18 14:52 ` Will Deacon
2014-11-20 7:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-21 6:16 ` David Long
2014-11-20 15:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support Steve Capper
2014-11-26 8:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-26 10:03 ` Steve Capper
2014-11-26 17:46 ` David Long
2014-11-26 18:59 ` Steve Capper
2014-11-27 6:07 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-28 16:01 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-01 9:37 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-02 19:27 ` William Cohen
2014-12-02 20:00 ` William Cohen
2014-12-03 3:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-03 14:54 ` William Cohen
2014-12-03 22:54 ` David Long
2014-12-04 0:02 ` David Long
2014-12-04 1:16 ` William Cohen
2014-12-04 2:48 ` David Long
2014-12-04 10:21 ` Steve Capper [this message]
2014-12-04 10:43 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-04 11:29 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-04 11:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-09 13:33 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-09 14:27 ` David Long
2014-12-10 16:38 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-12 22:42 ` David Long
2014-12-12 23:10 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-15 5:58 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-15 6:29 ` David Long
2014-12-05 5:08 ` William Cohen
2014-11-27 5:13 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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