<div dir="ltr">Dear Mathieu,<div><br></div><div>Apoplogies but please ignore my previous email as it wasn't properly finished.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your reply Mathieu! I have actually asked about this to the raspberry pi github forum, but unfortunately it seems that I have not gotten any reply from them on this matter yet. I'll be asking about how to turn off the CONFIG_OPTPROBES from them again if that's the case.</div><div><br></div><div>If this still fails then I'll be trying out Tom Zanussi's upstream version of the kernel as you suggested then. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your help once again and keep up the nice support that you have for lttng!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nicholas Sadjoli</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:04 AM Nicholas Sadjoli <<a href="mailto:nick.sadjoli@gmail.com">nick.sadjoli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Mathieu,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your reply Mathieu! I have actually asked about this to the raspberry pi github forum, but unfortunately it seems that I have not gotten any reply from them on this matter yet. I'll be asking about how to turn off the CONFIG_OPTPROBES from them again if that's the case.</div><div><br></div><div>If this still fails then I'll be trying out Tom Zanussi's upstream version of the kernel as you suggested then. Thank you so much for your help once again</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:11 PM Mathieu Desnoyers <<a href="mailto:mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com" target="_blank">mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><span id="gmail-m_-834536493055636908gmail-m_-6063565989240103262zwchr">----- On Apr 15, 2019, at 7:07 AM, Nicholas Sadjoli <<a href="mailto:nick.sadjoli@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.sadjoli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></span></div><div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Lttng dev Team,<br><div>I am currently interested in using lttng to measure the interrupt or hardware real-time latencies experienced within my user-space applications. Unfortunately I have been having issues installing lttng on my Raspberry Pi that is using the PREEMPT_RT patched kernel, version <span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">4.14.91-rt49-v7+. The problems so far can be seen documented in the RPi Linux github forum page here: </span><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2930" target="_blank">https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2930</a></span></font><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Initially I was about to just install the Debian package of the lttng onto the RPi, and just proceeded with the commands '</span><font face="Andale Mono WT, Andale Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Liberation Mono, Nimbus Mono L, Ubuntu Mono, Monaco, Consolas, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Courier New, Courier, monospace" color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.749019607843137)">sudo apt-get install lttng-modules-dkms liblttng-ust-dev lttng-tools' </font>However, I was unable to use lttng package at all and found out that for the RPi, a build from source is necessary for lttng, as described here: <span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52386448/linux-trace-tool-lttng-on-raspbian-kernel-tracer-not-available" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52386448/linux-trace-tool-lttng-on-raspbian-kernel-tracer-not-available</a></span></font></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">Following their suggestion, I then tried to build the lttng packages from source, and even re-building the RPi kernel locally to ensure the kernel headers are in the RPi and linked up properly to the source packages. </span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">Unfortunately when I tried to do this for the lttng-modules package, it instead gave me the following warning in my latest attempt: </span></font></span></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">I</span></font><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">n file included from /home/pi/BangEco_rvmscan/stagelight_project/lttng/lttng-modules/probes/lttng-kprobes.c:31:0:</span></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">/home/pi/BangEco_rvmscan/stagelight_project/lttng/lttng-modules/probes/../blacklist/kprobes.h:19:4: error: #error "Your kernel is known to have buggy optimized kprobes implementation. Fixed by commit 0ac569bf6a7983c0c5747d6df8db9dc05bc92b6c \"ARM: 8834/1: Fix: kprobes: optimized kprobes illegal instruction\" in Linux. Disable CONFIG_OPTPROBES or upgrade your kernel."</span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"> # error "Your kernel is known to have buggy optimized kprobes implementation. Fixed by commit 0ac569bf6a7983c0c5747d6df8db9dc05bc92b6c \"ARM: 8834/1: Fix: kprobes: optimized kprobes illegal instruction\" in Linux. Disable CONFIG_OPTPROBES or upgrade your kernel."</span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">I then tried to turn off the CONFIG_OPTPROBES kernel config, but it seemed to be automatically overwritten during kernel building and is considered an important part of the real-time RPi kernels. Has such problems been reported with this version of the PREEMPT_RT kernel in the past (again, the current kernel version that I am using is </span></font><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">4.14.91-rt49-v7+)? If there are I would like to know how this issue was resolved so that I can properly build and use the lttng package for my project.</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Hi Nicholas,<br></div><div><br></div><div>It looks like our lttng-modules kernel version blacklist is acting exactly as it should. Looking at this<br></div><div>git tree:<br></div><div><br></div><div>git clone <a href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git" target="_blank">https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git</a> -b rpi-4.14.y-rt<br></div><div><pre><code class="gmail-m_-834536493055636908gmail-m_-6063565989240103262language-sh gmail-m_-834536493055636908gmail-m_-6063565989240103262hljs gmail-m_-834536493055636908gmail-m_-6063565989240103262bash"></code></pre></div><div>I notice that in the git log, we find this bogus commit:<br></div><div><br></div><div>commit f9e0bc710347fadad55910846ee36f0681d0dca8<br>Author: Kees Cook <<a href="mailto:keescook@chromium.org" target="_blank">keescook@chromium.org</a>><br>Date: Tue Oct 30 22:12:56 2018 +0100<br><br> ARM: 8806/1: kprobes: Fix false positive with FORTIFY_SOURCE<br> <br> commit e46daee53bb50bde38805f1823a182979724c229 upstream.<br><br></div><div>But not the fix for it (upstream):<br></div><div><br></div><div>commit 0ac569bf6a7983c0c5747d6df8db9dc05bc92b6c<br>Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <<a href="mailto:mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com" target="_blank">mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com</a>><br>Date: Tue Feb 5 16:37:40 2019 +0100<br><br> ARM: 8834/1: Fix: kprobes: optimized kprobes illegal instruction<br><br></div><div>So lttng-modules refuses to build against your kernel configuration with CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y</div><div>to save you the trouble of having kprobes trigger illegal instruction OOPS at runtime.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm unusure who maintains that raspberrypi rt kernel tree. However, the upstream rt tree<br></div><div>for 4.14-rt maintained by Tom Zanussi seems to contain the fix:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt/+/refs/heads/v4.14-rt" target="_blank">https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt/+/refs/heads/v4.14-rt</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>(currently at 4.14.109-rt57).<br></div><div><br></div><div>So you should contact your raspberrypi linux rt tree clone maintainer and ask him<br></div><div>to upgrade, or, as stated in the #error generated by lttng-modules, simply ensure<br></div><div>CONFIG_OPTPROBES is unset when you build your kernel. You should ask the<br></div><div>raspberrypi community advice on how to ensure this configuration option is not</div><div>overridden by the raspberrypi build system.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mathieu</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">Thank you so much for your attention and looking forward to your reply soon.</span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">Best Regards,</span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" color="#24292e"><span style="font-size:14px">Nicholas Sadjoli</span></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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