[Bug 1557673] Re: systemtap does not work on xenial, struct module changes

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: xenial

** Also affects: systemtap (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: High
     Assignee: Dan Streetman (ddstreet)
       Status: In Progress

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Title:
  systemtap does not work on xenial, struct module changes

Status in systemtap package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in systemtap source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Attempting to use systemtap on xenial with the 4.4 kernel results in:

  ubuntu at xenial:~$ sudo stap test.stap
  In file included from /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/print.c:17:0,
                   from /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/runtime_context.h:22,
                   from /tmp/stapxvNfgC/stap_2e27f5927a5796b18cb7b3c2abd24ec4_812_src.c:50:
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/print.c: In function ‘_stp_print_kernel_info’:
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/print.c:242:20: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘module_core’
           THIS_MODULE->module_core,
                      ^
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/print.c:243:37: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘core_size’
           (unsigned long) (THIS_MODULE->core_size - THIS_MODULE->core_text_size)/1024,
                                       ^
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/print.c:243:62: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘core_text_size’
           (unsigned long) (THIS_MODULE->core_size - THIS_MODULE->core_text_size)/1024,
                                                                ^
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/print.c:244:44: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘core_text_size’
                  (unsigned long) (THIS_MODULE->core_text_size)/1024,
                                              ^
  scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target '/tmp/stapxvNfgC/stap_2e27f5927a5796b18cb7b3c2abd24ec4_812_src.o' failed
  make[1]: *** [/tmp/stapxvNfgC/stap_2e27f5927a5796b18cb7b3c2abd24ec4_812_src.o] Error 1
  Makefile:1396: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/stapxvNfgC' failed
  make: *** [_module_/tmp/stapxvNfgC] Error 2
  WARNING: kbuild exited with status: 2
  Pass 4: compilation failed.  [man error::pass4]
  Tip: /usr/share/doc/systemtap/README.Debian should help you get started.

  [Test Case]

  on a xenial system with the 4.4 kernel installed, and systemtap and
  kernel dbgsyms installed, simply create a dummy stap script and try to
  run it, e.g.:

  $ cat test.stap 
  #!/usr/bin/stap

  probe begin {
    println("hello")
  }
  $ sudo stap test.stap

  the above compilation failure will result.

  [Regression Potential]

  The commit updates stap to use the kernel module header correctly
  based on a small test program, so there should be no regression, but
  possible regression is breaking stap on the xenial 4.3 kernel.

  [Other Info]

  this requires upstream stap commit
  3f040971e7efb4d323fcb63d83b4337f355c60db

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