Documents

• https://sourceware.org/systemtap/tutorial/

• SystemTap Language Reference

• https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/HomePage

• https://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/

• Linux 自检和 SystemTap

• http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/10/15/using-systemtap/

• SystemTap Beginners Guide

• Adding User Space Probing to an Application (heapsort example)

CPP

• Systemtap simple userspace example (function tracing, Ubuntu)?

• Overloaded c++ methods profiling using SystemTap

• 用 SystemTap 追踪 user space 程式執行的流程

Installation

Ubuntu

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Systemtap
• http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux/
• Redhat & Ubuntu systemtap 安装及使用

Redhat

• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Systemtap

CentOS

• https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemTapOnCentOS

cross compile

• http://omappedia.org/wiki/Systemtap

• https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Tools/Systemtap

• systemtap交叉编译

• How to compile elfutils for x86 ?

Trouble shooting

Kernel module: Invalid module format

version magic mismatch

Change UTS_RELEASE macro in include/generated/utsrelease.h.

• Linux kernel version magic: Adding the missing plus suffix
• [!] The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide: 2.8. Building modules for a precompiled kernel
• insmod invalid module format
• How to change the vermagic of a module
• version magic error
• Loading a android kernel module with vermagic mismatch
• Cross compiled ARM Kernel instead of ARMHF

WARNING: Kernel function symbol table missing

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SystemTap

Unknown symbol

• “Unknown symbol in module” on module insertion despite EXPORT_SYMBOL
• insmod模块时出现"-1 Unknown symbol in module"错误

Unknown symbol __stack_chk_guard / Unknown symbol __stack_chk_fail

-fno-stack-protector

• Linux内核gprof与insmod模块报Unknown symbol __gnu_mcount_nc (err 0)
• mips-openwrt交叉编译 undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard 错误
• undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
• 有人遇到过 Unknown symbol __stack_chk_fail 这样的问题么

modprobe: can't change directory to '/lib/modules'

kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/x.x.x.x/modules.dep.bin'

• “Could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.XX-generic/modules.dep.bin'” when mounting using a loop