Re: a different perf tracepoint bug

From: Vince Weaver
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 16:52:31 EST


On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > [11559.476002] <<EOE>> <IRQ> [<ffffffff8104acaa>] ? __send_signal+0xd8/0x26f
>
> Can you find the exact location of __send_signal()?

I'm not sure what you mean, but:

addr2line -e ./vmlinux ffffffff8104acaa
linux-kernel/linux-3.12/kernel/signal.c:1095

which is

q = __sigqueue_alloc(sig, t, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE,
override_rlimit);
--> if (q) {
list_add_tail(&q->list, &pending->list);
switch ((unsigned long) info) {
case (unsigned long) SEND_SIG_NOINFO:
...


though this might just be a case where tracepoints are happening too
quickly and the kernel gets stuck and can't keep up. Previously I was
using a hacked kernel that made the watchdog continually print rather than
just warn once, the better to see if any progress was being made.

Vince
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