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[Bug runtime/3911] Compilation of systemtap causes the system to crash on p570 system.


------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2007-01-25 20:27 -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> I was compiling latest systemtap source on  rhel5(2.6.18-1.2961.el5) kernel and
> system dropped to xmon.

Not really just compiling: you were running test cases.

> What xmon shows 
> =============================
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x420000000007f
> 5:mon> e
> cpu 0x5: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000028a6b310]
>     pc: c000000000349f40: ._spin_lock+0x20/0x88

This resembles a memory corruption that may even precede this systemtap module.
It is certainly *before* any probes are even registered, let alone run.  The
runtime is the only part more or less running by this time.


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