Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:33:56 +0530 | From | Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry |
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:05:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Here is a patch that adds a wrapper for defining jprobe.entry to make > > > > it easy to handle the three dword function descriptors defined by the > > > > PowerPC ELF ABI. > > > > > > > > Current patch against 2.6.10-rc2-mm1 + kprobes patch for ppc64. > > > > > > I don't have the kprobes-for-ppc64 patch here. > > > > > > > Changes for adding this wrapper for x86, ppc64 (tested) and x86_64 > > > > (untested) below. The earlier method of defining jprobe.entry will > > > > continue to work. > > > > > > So what should I do with this? I'm inclined to drop it until the x86_64 > > > part has been tested and Dave has had a go at the sparc64 version. > > > > I have now tested the patch succesfully on x86_64 and updated it for > > sparc64 too (Dave says the change looks good). > > What is the review and testing status of the kprobes-for-ppc64 patch which > you sent? > The patch was earlier posted on the PPC64 mailing list for comments and Paul had reviewed it. I had to update the patch to take care of the base kprobe changes that were made to accomodate the x86_64 port.
The patch is tested on POWER3 (uni) and POWER4 (lpar).
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