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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:59:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mwqsehuj9.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130402181940.GA4936@thunk.org> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:19:40 -0400")


Hi -


tytso wrote:

> So I tried to reproduce the problem, and so I installed systemtap
> (bleeding edge, since otherwise it won't work with development
> kernel), and then rebuilt a kernel with all of the necessary CONFIG
> options enabled:
>
> 	CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, CONFIG_KPROBES, CONFIG_RELAY, CONFIG_DEBUG_FS,
> 	CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
> [...]

That sounds about right.


> I then pulled down mmtests, and tried running watch-dstate.pl, which
> is what I assume you were using [...]

I just took a look at the mmtests, particularly the stap-fix.sh stuff.
The heroics therein are really not called for.  git kernel developers
should use git systemtap, as has always been the case.  All
compatibility hacks in stap-fix.sh have already been merged, in many
cases for months.


> [...]
> semantic error: while resolving probe point: identifier 'kprobe' at /tmp/stapdjN4_l:18:7
>         source: probe kprobe.function("get_request_wait")
>                       ^
> Pass 2: analysis failed.  [man error::pass2]
> Unexpected exit of STAP script at ./watch-dstate.pl line 296.
> I have no clue what to do next.  Can you give me a hint?

You should see the error::pass2 man page, which refers to
error::reporting, which refers to involving stap folks and running
stap-report to gather needed info.

But in this case, that's unnecessary: the problem is most likely that
the get_request_wait function does not actually exist any longer, since

commit a06e05e6afab70b4b23c0a7975aaeae24b195cd6
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon Jun 4 20:40:55 2012 -0700

    block: refactor get_request[_wait]()


Systemtap could endavour to list roughly-matching functions that do
exist, if you think that's be helpful.


- FChE

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02 14:27 Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 15:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-02 15:03 ` Zheng Liu
2013-04-02 15:15   ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 15:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 15:14   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-02 18:19     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-07 21:59       ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2013-04-08  8:36         ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-08 10:52           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2013-04-08 11:01         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 10:19     ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-03 12:05       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 15:15         ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-05 22:18       ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-05 23:16         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-06  7:29           ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06  7:37             ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06  8:19               ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-06 13:15             ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-10 10:56   ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 13:12     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-11 17:04       ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 18:35         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-11 21:33           ` Jan Kara
2013-04-12  2:57             ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-12  4:50               ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-12 15:19                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-13  1:23                   ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-22 14:38                   ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-22 22:42                     ` Jeff Moyer
2013-04-23  0:02                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23  9:31                       ` Jan Kara
2013-04-23 14:01                       ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-24 19:09                         ` Jeff Moyer
2013-04-25 12:21                           ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12  9:47               ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-21  0:05                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21  0:07                   ` [PATCH 1/3] ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21  0:07                     ` [PATCH 2/3] buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21  0:07                     ` [PATCH 3/3] ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flags Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21  6:09                       ` Jiri Slaby
2013-04-21 19:55                         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-21 20:48                           ` [PATCH 3/3 -v2] " Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-22 12:06                     ` [PATCH 1/3] ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META Zheng Liu
2013-04-23 15:33                   ` Excessive stall times on ext4 in 3.9-rc2 Mel Gorman
2013-04-23 15:50                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 16:13                       ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 10:18               ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2013-04-12  9:45           ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-02 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 15:22   ` Mel Gorman

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