(2011/06/24 19:29), Steven Rostedt wrote:

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 17:21 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:

quoted

Hi,

When I use kprobe to do something, I found some wired thing.

When CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is disabled:
(gdb) disassemble do_fork
Dump of assembler code for function do_fork:
   0xc0037390 <+0>:	mflr    r0
   0xc0037394 <+4>:	stwu    r1,-64(r1)
   0xc0037398 <+8>:	mfcr    r12
   0xc003739c <+12>:	stmw    r27,44(r1)

Then I:
modprobe kprobe_example func=do_fork offset=4
ls
Things works well.

But when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is enabled:
(gdb) disassemble do_fork
Dump of assembler code for function do_fork:
   0xc0040334 <+0>:	mflr    r0
   0xc0040338 <+4>:	stw     r0,4(r1)
   0xc004033c <+8>:	bl      0xc00109d4 <mcount>
   0xc0040340 <+12>:	stwu    r1,-80(r1)
   0xc0040344 <+16>:	mflr    r0
   0xc0040348 <+20>:	stw     r0,84(r1)
   0xc004034c <+24>:	mfcr    r12
Then I:
modprobe kprobe_example func=do_fork offset=12
ls
'ls' will never retrun. system freeze.

I'm not sure if x86 had a similar issue.

Masami, have any ideas to why this happened?

No, I don't familiar with ppc implementation. I guess
that single-step resume code failed to emulate the
instruction, but it strongly depends on ppc arch.
Maybe IBM people may know what happened.

Ananth, Jim, would you have any ideas?

Thank you,

I don't have a PPC32 to test on, but I can try it out on my PPC64.

-- Steve

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I'm using toolchain from:http://www.denx.de/wiki/ELDK-5/WebHome
powerpc-linux-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/libexec/powerpc-linux/gcc/powerpc-linux/4.5.1/lto-wrapper
Target: powerpc-linux
Configured with:
/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/work/i686-nativesdk-oesdk-linux/gcc-cross-canadian-powerpc-4.5.1-r4/gcc-4.5.1/configure
--build=x86_64-linux --host=i686-oesdk-linux --target=powerpc-linux
--prefix=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr
--exec_prefix=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr
--bindir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux
--sbindir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux
--libexecdir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/libexec/powerpc-linux
--datadir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/etc
--sharedstatedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/com
--localstatedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/var
--libdir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/lib/powerpc-linux
--includedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/include
--oldincludedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/include
--infodir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/share/info
--mandir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/share/man
--with-libtool-sysroot=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux-nativesdk
--with-gnu-ld --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
--enable-threads=posix --disable-multilib --enable-c99
--enable-long-long --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-pch
--program-prefix=powerpc-linux- --enable-lto --enable-libssp
--disable-bootstrap --disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap
--enable-cheaders=c_global
--with-local-prefix=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/powerpc-linux/usr
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++
--with-build-time-tools=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/powerpc-linux/bin
--with-sysroot=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/powerpc-linux
--with-build-sysroot=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/powerpc
--disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp
--disable-libmudflap
--with-mpfr=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux-nativesdk
--with-mpc=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux-nativesdk
--enable-__cxa_atexit
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.5.1 (GCC)


And kernel config is attached.

BTW, I have made a patch to make kprobe_example set breakpoint easily,
attached too.

Thanks,
Yong

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com