ubuntu 11.10, systemtap and building my own kernel

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 14:31:45 EDT 2012


Hi -

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:23:43PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> [...]
> 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).

I believe this was related to a viro's linux commit 9591718a5a.

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

According to http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2011-q1/msg00036.html,
it was run with 2.6.9 ... 2.6.37.

- FChE



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