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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] To make systemtap work on 2.6.24-rc4-mm1
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa at in dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:04:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] To make systemtap work on 2.6.24-rc4-mm1
- References: <475E5B32.90408@in.ibm.com>
Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> writes:
> I was testing Masami's kprobes patch on x86_64. I found that some
> changes in vfs and Roland's fix (those are present in -mm1) have
> made systemtap not to work on -mm1. [...] I have developed the
> patch, which fixes this issue. [...]
In order to retain backward compatibility with older kernels, the code
would need to have #if KERNEL_VERSION conditionals to retain the old
ones too.
- FChE