ubuntu 11.10, systemtap and building my own kernel

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>
> rpjday wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > $ stap -e 'probe kernel.function("sys_open") {log("hello world") exit()}'
> > and got:
> > ===== start =====
> > [...]
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > make[1]: *** [/tmp/stapadEYdA/stap_59bddd394f89d5f186da7e250db36434_876.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [_module_/tmp/stapadEYdA] Error 2
> > Pass 4: compilation failed.  Try again with another '--vp 0001' option.
>
> Please try systemtap 1.7, or build one out of
> <git://sourceware.org/git/systemtap.git>.  Newer kernels sometimes
> break systemtap assumptions; these are fixed pretty quickly in the
> source tree, and get rolled into later releases.
>
> Please report any further problems at <systemtap at sourceware.org>,
> including /usr/bin/stap-report output, if able.

  ok, but i'm curious ... i took a quick look at earlier kernels and i
don't see where "struct hlist_head" *ever* had a "next" member field
that is required by this version of systemtap (1.4).

  can you clarify which kernel version(s) would have worked with this
version of systemtap?  thanks.

rday

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