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Re: please help


David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
> It appears that systemtap is complaining that you are trying to put
> probes in a ppc (32-bit) executable while running a ppc64 (64-bit)
> kernel.  Unfortunately, that is the normal case on a ppc64 box (if I
> remember correctly).
>[...]

> If I'm reading tapsets.cxx correctly, the same problem will happen when
> trying to probe an x86 program on a system with a x86_64 kernel.

Right, this is a bug.  If uprobes can handle it, we should support
bi-architecture userspace probing, and relax the above check to assert
arch matching for the kernel side only.

- FChE


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