A question on PPC32

Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli ananth@in.ibm.com
Mon Jun 29 09:57:00 GMT 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:24:03PM +0800, chen HJ wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A simple question, can systemTap support PPC32 now? I have tried to
> compile systemTap on MPC5121, but it needs a header file for PPC64.

The kernel side support (kprobes, tracepoints, et al) are already
available. Its quite possible that the SystemTap runtime needs a few
tweaks to get it working for ppc32

Look at __powerpc64__/__arm__ in runtime code and see if a new stub
needs to be written at those places for __powerpc__

Ananth



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