Re: [PATCH 2/6] tracing: increase size of number of possibleevents

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Apr 24 2009 - 10:05:43 EST



On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Li Zefan wrote:
> >
> > console 1:
> > # cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
> >
> > console 2:
> > while (1) {
> > insmod trace-events-sample.ko
> > echo foo_bar > /debug/tracing/set_event
> > rmmod trace-events-sample.ko
> > }
> >
> > I got this immediately:
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000006f
> > IP: [<c05210f3>] bstr_printf+0x2ce/0x302
> > ...
> > Call Trace:
> > [<c0476d12>] ? trace_seq_bprintf+0x28/0x41
> > [<c0477569>] ? trace_bprint_print+0x58/0x6c
> > [<c0472ffc>] ? print_trace_line+0x2c5/0x2df
> > [<c0428a41>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x85/0xa0
> > [<c04758cf>] ? tracing_read_pipe+0x118/0x191
> > [<c04757b7>] ? tracing_read_pipe+0x0/0x191
> > [<c04b09f9>] ? vfs_read+0x8f/0x136
> > [<c04b0da3>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
> > [<c0402a68>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
> >
> > (We can even get other crashes..)
> >
>
> Can you send me your full bootlog and config. I'm not able to reproduce
> this.

And the SHA1 of the HEAD of the git repo you are using.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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