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One of the repeating job is finding the argument values passed from the caller. Now by just run 'edis', you can see some stack values after the operation code as a comment in yellow color. 'edis' example for x86_64'edis' example for ppc64le
The reason of the below message 2013-07-16T05:00:05.181538-04:00 xxxxxx kernel: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -95170507948 ns). Enable clocksource failover by adding clocksource_failover kernel parameter. clocksource structure /** * struct clocksource - hardware abstraction for a free running counter * Provides mostly state-free accessors to the underlying hardware. * This is the structure used for system… Continue reading Clocksource tsc unstable
Based on Pykdump, I wrote a set of plugins named 'pycrashext' which is basically trying to help to reduce the troubleshooting time. My favorite command in this set is 'edis' which can display source code in between disassembled lines. This requires an additional source code server with source codes, but once you have it, it… Continue reading pycrashext – A rich python extension
I am dealing with vmcore analysis for the most of my daily work. To speed up the analysis, I needed some extra command set on top of the commands 'crash' is providing. Luckily there is a tool names 'pkydump' which is a crash extension and also provides a way to implement extensions using python. I… Continue reading Python/CRASH API aka pkydump
TAINT_WARN is explained in kernel/panic.c as 'Taint on warning'. static const struct tnt tnts[] = { ... { TAINT_WARN, 'W', ' ' }, } /** ... * 'W' - Taint on warning. ... */ This flag is turned on from "__WARN()" to confirm that the system had 'WARNING' messages once or more time. #define __WARN()… Continue reading What’s TAINT_WARN?
If you are seeing 'root:root' under /proc// for your process, it means the process is in Zombie state. #include int main() { pid_t pid; int i; for (i = 0; ; i++) { pid = fork(); if (pid > 0) { break; } else { exit(0); } } while (1) { sleep(1); } return 0;… Continue reading Normal user process shows “root:root” permission in /proc//
There are times that you have to deal with a module which you don't have source code. Only thing we can do is disassemble it, but if you don't have actual module binary, this is also tough. Luckily, vmcore has all the code loaded into the memory. So, here's the steps to get disassembled code… Continue reading How to disassemble a module from a vmcore
Note for myself to remember how call trace is generated in Kernel /* * The architecture-independent dump_stack generator */ void dump_stack(void) { unsigned long stack; printk("Pid: %d, comm: %.20s %s %s %.*sn", current->pid, current->comm, print_tainted(), init_utsname()->release, (int)strcspn(init_utsname()->version, " "), init_utsname()->version); show_trace(NULL, NULL, &stack); } void show_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long *stack) {… Continue reading How dump trace is generated in Linux kernel
There's a time a process is suddenly killed, but has no idea which process or who killed it. There are couple of ways to identify, but using SystemTap is one clear way to identify it. SystemTap is a script language that can be loaded into Linux kernel and interact safely in kernel to monitoring or… Continue reading How to find out who is killing my process
RHEL 5 code 32bit: include/asm-i386/processor.h /* * User space process size: 3GB (default). */ #define TASK_SIZE (PAGE_OFFSET) 64bit: include/asm-x86_64/processor.h /* * User space process size. 47bits minus one guard page. */ #define TASK_SIZE64 (0x800000000000UL - 4096) /* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm * space during mmap's. */… Continue reading What’s virtual address limit of 32bit/64bit Linux kernel?
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in… Continue reading Quotes from “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”
Automatic NUMA Balancing It is described in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt numa_balancing Enables/disables automatic page fault based NUMA memory balancing. Memory is moved automatically to nodes that access it often. Enables/disables automatic NUMA memory balancing. On NUMA machines, there is a performance penalty if remote memory is accessed by a CPU. When this feature is enabled the kernel… Continue reading Personal memo for ‘Automatic NUMA Balancing’
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