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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ildar Muslukhov <ildarm@google.com>
Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix syscall32 to supply 6th arg to syscal
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 14:15:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131002181537.GA30862@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEGbLtuTi3BZffyGLahgGDVp2YhqWMPwY6VLUOBdnfnVzZDeQQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:12:21AM -0700, Ildar Muslukhov wrote:
 > I finally was able to reproduce that bug. In order to validate the
 > assumption that the "syscall32 fix" patch introduced that bug I pulled
 > the latest trinity source and removed the patch at question from the
 > source (gladly patch was small). And I am still getting segfault.
 > Thus, assumption that this patch introduced that bug looks less
 > probable now. Furthermore, if you run trinity with a single 32 bit
 > function (-c perf_event_open,32 for example) it runs just fine.
 > 
 > Several observations from my runs:
 > 1) Not all 32 bit calls end up in segfault.
 > 2) All segfaults are calls to 32 bit syscall.
 > 
 > Still digging into what causes this, will keep you posted.

This may have been why I had this..

// FIXME: I forgot why this got disabled. Revisit.
//                     if (rand() % 100 < 10)
//                             shm->do32bit[childno] = TRUE;

in choose_syscall_table.

Probably an old bug that I've never found time to dig into.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-19 21:24 [PATCH] Fix syscall32 to supply 6th arg to syscal Ildar Muslukhov
2013-09-19 21:35 ` Dave Jones
2013-10-02 15:12 ` Dave Jones
2013-10-02 16:14   ` Ildar Muslukhov
2013-10-02 16:43     ` Dave Jones
2013-10-02 18:12       ` Ildar Muslukhov
2013-10-02 18:15         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-10-02 20:44           ` Ildar Muslukhov
2013-10-02 20:48             ` Dave Jones
2013-10-02 20:53               ` Ildar Muslukhov
2013-10-02 20:57                 ` Dave Jones
2013-10-02 21:03                   ` Ildar Muslukhov

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