A question on PPC32

[Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:30:22PM +0530, ashok.shanmugam@wipro.com wrote:
> >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
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Ananth,
> 
> Can you tell me from which kernel version the PPC32 is supported for kprobes ?

Kumar Gala added the patch (git commit 8209003) in Feb 2007. AFAICS, kprobes
for ppc32 has been available since 2.6.21.

Ananth