What about MIPS support?

Maneesh Soni manesoni@cisco.com
Thu Aug 23 02:23:00 GMT 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:04:12PM -0700, Victor Kamensky wrote:
....
> Wrt of MIPS kprobes, it should be there already, somewhere in latest
> kernel. Most of support was there for a while. Maneesh and I
> contributed patch that let probe be inserted into jump instructions
> (that was limitation of original implementation, which we quickly
> discovered when we used for real cases). We worked on top 2.6.32
> kernel. As understand there is current gradual departure from
> uprobes .. so our mips uprobes part may need rework a bit.
  ^^^^^^ I guess you meant utrace?
> 
Actually the current (as in mainline kernel) approach for uprobes
is not using utrace, so there could be almost a re-write effort.

Thanks
Maneesh



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