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From: Maneesh Soni <manesoni@cisco.com>
To: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org, Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>,
	       Per Hallsmark <Per.Hallsmark@windriver.com>,
	       Wade Farnsworth <wade_farnsworth@mentor.com>
Subject: Re: What about MIPS support?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120823022252.GA10067@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1208221222170.28511@infra-view11.cisco.com>

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:04:12PM -0700, Victor Kamensky wrote:
....
> Wrt of MIPS kprobes, it should be there already, somewhere in latest
> kernel. Most of support was there for a while. Maneesh and I
> contributed patch that let probe be inserted into jump instructions
> (that was limitation of original implementation, which we quickly
> discovered when we used for real cases). We worked on top 2.6.32
> kernel. As understand there is current gradual departure from
> uprobes .. so our mips uprobes part may need rework a bit.
  ^^^^^^ I guess you meant utrace?
> 
Actually the current (as in mainline kernel) approach for uprobes
is not using utrace, so there could be almost a re-write effort.

Thanks
Maneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-23  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-22 20:04 Victor Kamensky
2012-08-23  2:23 ` Maneesh Soni [this message]
2012-08-23 14:33   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2012-08-23 22:11 ` Josh Stone
2012-10-15 21:21   ` Victor Kamensky
2012-10-23 23:43     ` Josh Stone
2015-08-05 12:42     ` William Cohen
     [not found]       ` <CAJdmCr+1s6JLW3DsGxbdqPcpnD1+wNo5VwAifm6UN-SWE+PKmw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-05 16:25         ` William Cohen
     [not found]           ` <CAJdmCrLN3w6J3XHTCx0uMDQDAc6LB+5qC3o7Rr+KABAriwNATg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-06  1:30             ` William Cohen
2015-08-06 13:04               ` William Cohen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-17 16:33 Hallsmark, Per
2012-08-18  2:20 ` Josh Stone

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