A question on PPC32

[chen HJ]

Hi all,

Thanks for your response, can you provide any more detailed steps
about how to make systemTap work on PPC32?

Best Regards,
H.J


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Ananth N
Mavinakayanahalli<ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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
>