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Re: systemtap support arm?

From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
To: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi at gmail dot com>
Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:03:22 +0200
Subject: Re: systemtap support arm?
References: <CACV3sbJt-p4p=117712vuTKFD+rZuy2zBbg3UqYYwN4Cy8UXmw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 16:05 +0800, Jovi Zhang wrote:
> - arm now have a uprobes port which enables user probes. This still
>   requires some kernel patches (user_regsets and tracehook support for arm).
> 
> But there don't have arm uprobe porting in Linux kernel mainline right
> now(only x86), so where is this arm uprobes kernel part? Thanks.

The utrace based uprobes arm code is under
runtime/uprobes2/uprobes_arm.c in the systemtap source tree.
See also http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2011-q4/msg00134.html
This would need porting to the inode based uprobes that is now in the
linux 3.5 mainline tree.

Cheers,

Mark

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