Re: perf: perf_fuzzer lockup in perf_cgroup_attach

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:35:49PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > so the skylake that was fuzzing finally is mostly locked up.
> > >
> > > Really hard to tell what's going, especially as KASLR made looking up the
> > > addresses a big pain.
> > >
> > I would think there is a way to disable KASLR for this kind of testing!
> 
> I always kill CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE, but there's also talk of killing
> the address print entirely..  :-(
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160831165303.tvcudt7wkpechuqt@treble

So you should be able to do something like:

  echo "list *driver_probe_device+0x223" |gdb vmlinux |grep "is in"

Though that's admittedly quite a bit slower than addr2line.

-- 
Josh