Re: [Perfctr-devel] 2.6.15-rc5-git3 perfmon2 new code base + libpfmavailable

From: William Cohen
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 16:25:05 EST


Stephane Eranian wrote:
Hello,

I have released a new version of the perfmon base package.
This release is relative to 2.6.15-rc5-git3.

I have also updated the library, libpfm-3.2, to match the kernel
level changes.

Hi Stephane,

I downloaded the new version of perfmon and the matching libpfm. I built everything on a p6 based machine. The kernel booted fine. I tried the task_smpl_user in the libpfm examples. That crashed the kernel. What was on the xterm:

$ ./task_smpl_user ls
measuring at plm=0x8
programming 2 PMCS and 2 PMDS
Segmentation fault

The related oops /var/log/messages:

Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6ba7
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: printing eip:
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: c0202b51
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: *pde = 6b6b6b6b
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: SMP
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Modules linked in: ipv6 lp autofs4 rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables dm_mirror dm_mod video button battery ac parport_pc parport snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_cs46xx snd_seq_midi_emul snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_ac97_codec snd_mixer_oss snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_util_mem floppy snd_hwdep snd_timer emu10k1_gp snd gameport soundcore snd_page_alloc 3c59x mii i2c_i801 hw_random uhci_hcd shpchp i2c_core ext3 jbd
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0202b51>] Not tainted VLI
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15-rc5-git3-perfop)
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: EIP is at pfm_smpl_fmt_put+0x11/0x60
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: eax: d6ee6ab0 ebx: 6b6b6b6b ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000cf4
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: esi: cf9f2000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: cfc1ff00
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Process task_smpl_user (pid: 2654, threadinfo=cfc1f000 task=d6ee6ab0)
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Stack: ffffffda c0201ee7 00000000 c010400c d6ee6ab0 d6dea570 d6dea740 00000000
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: d7010a34 00802140 00000000 00000000 00000000 cfc1ff68 d2d5b9a4 00000000
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: 0000003c 00000000 cfc1f000 00000000 cfc1ff68 00000000 cfc1f000 c0203f98
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Call Trace:
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: [<c0201ee7>] __pfm_create_context+0x167/0x440
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: [<c010400c>] __switch_to+0x15c/0x220
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: [<c0203f98>] sys_pfm_create_context+0x78/0xe0
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: [<c010569d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Dec 15 15:54:40 trek kernel: Code: 00 01 00 00 ff 00 b8 80 4c 44 c0 e8 9a d2 16 00 89 d8 5b c3 31 db eb ee 89 f6 85 c0 53 89 c3 74 39 b8 80 4c 44 c0 e8 5f d2 16 00 <8b> 53 3c 85 d2 74 1b b8 00 f0 ff ff 21 e0 8b 40 10 c1 e0 07 8d


-Will
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