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Re: systemtap support arm?

From: Torsten Polle <Torsten dot Polle at gmx dot de>
To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:20:30 +0200
Subject: Re: systemtap support arm?
References: <CACV3sbJt-p4p=117712vuTKFD+rZuy2zBbg3UqYYwN4Cy8UXmw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jovi,

Jovi Zhang writes:
 > Hi,

 > This is my first contact systemtap@sourceware.org, I have a question
 > about uprobe support in systemtap of ARM architecture.

 > I got this from NEWS:

 > - arm now have a uprobes port which enables user probes. This still
 >   requires some kernel patches (user_regsets and tracehook support for arm).

I just wanted to let you know that I've started to include the necessary
patches into the Linux kernel. My work is 3.4 based. I backported stuff
from 3.5 and added the missing parts. The first coding is finished and
I'm about to start testing tomorrow.

 > 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.

> .jovi

Regards,
Torsten

References:
- systemtap support arm?
  - From: Jovi Zhang

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