Status of ARM user-space support?

[Jim Keniston]

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:28 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > [...]
> >>>          The arm work was posted upstream on 4/24, but there have been
> >>>          no replies from ARM folks. [...]
> > [...]
> > When it said "arm work finished" after the bullet item "get arm and
> > mips converted to regsets and uprobes", I thought that meant that the
> > arm work was finished for regsets and uprobes.
> 
> Yeah.  Roland's work has enabled ARM utrace (not uprobes), but for
> whatever reason hasn't been merged yet.  ezannoni erred in mentioning
> uprobes.  It would be nice if someone providing ARM distro and
> interested in systemtap were to get in touch to fill in the missing
> bits.
> 
> - FChE

Yes.  Neither uprobes nor utrace is upstream.  The version of uprobes
that ships with SystemTap requires utrace.  I can email you our uprobes
porting guide, Grant, but of course it's not much use if your ARM system
doesn't include utrace.

Jim Keniston