systemtap support arm?

Mark Wielaard mjw@redhat.com
Fri Jul 20 15:03:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 16:05 +0800, Jovi Zhang wrote:
> - arm now have a uprobes port which enables user probes. This still
>   requires some kernel patches (user_regsets and tracehook support for arm).
> 
> 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.

The utrace based uprobes arm code is under
runtime/uprobes2/uprobes_arm.c in the systemtap source tree.
See also http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2011-q4/msg00134.html
This would need porting to the inode based uprobes that is now in the
linux 3.5 mainline tree.

Cheers,

Mark



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