Re: Systemtap snap:1393520f test on kernel-2.6.31-rc9

[Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>]

Hi Pavan,

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:01 +0530, Pavan Naregundi wrote:
> Here is the result of Systemtap snap:1393520f test on kernel-2.6.31-rc9
> 
> Arch: ppc64
> elfutils version-0.142
> GCC: 4.4.1
> [...]
> # of unexpected failures      288
> [...]
> One of the common error seen was,
> 
> Running /home/pavan/systemtap/src/testsuite/systemtap.base/alias_tapset.exp
> ...
> running stap -p2 -I
> /home/pavan/systemtap/src/testsuite/systemtap.base/alias_tapset
> /home/pavan/systemtap/src/testsuite/systemtap.base/alias_tapset.stp
> semantic error: ELF machine |ppc64 (code 21) mismatch with target powerpc
> in '/boot/vmlinux-2.6.31-rc9'^M
> semantic error: no match while resolving probe point
> kernel.function("sys_read")^M
> semantic error: no match while resolving probe point syscall.read^M
> Pass 2: analysis failed.  Try again with another '--vp 01' option.^M
> FAIL: alias_tapset (1, 0, 0, 0)

Ananth already added that to PR4186. We seem to not get the "canonical
name" of ppc64/ppc32 kernels correct. If someone with a ppc setup could
add the output of uname -m on a powerpc 32bit and/or powerpc 64bit
kernel to the bug report, that would be helpful.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4186

Thanks,

Mark