From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Maneesh Soni <manesoni@cisco.com>
Cc: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>,
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 14:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120823143304.GA26587@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120823022252.GA10067@cisco.com>
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:52:52AM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> 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.
... though it shouldn't be a major one; see for instance my port to
powerpc http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/179260/ currently under
review/discussion.
Ananth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-23 14:33 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
2012-08-23 14:33 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [this message]
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
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2012-08-17 16:33 Hallsmark, Per
2012-08-18 2:20 ` Josh Stone
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