uprobes issue with oracle 12c

If you are using dynamic tracing tools like systemtap/perf for user space probing (based on uprobes/uretprobes) with recent oracle/kernel version you may have hit this issue.As stated by Luca Canali Ref

“Issues with uprobes and Oracle versions: uprobes works OK for tracing Oracle 11.2. However, for Oracle 12.1 I find that uprobes works OK on  RHEL7.0 (kernel 3.10.0-123) and UEK (kernel 3.8.x), but does not work for kernels that ship with RHEL 7.1,7,2 and anything higher (including UEK4). When testing the easiest is to use Oracle 11.2 or if you want to test Oracle 12.1 use UEK3 or RHEL 7.0 kernel. More investigations are needed on this topic.”

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