What about MIPS support?

[Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:52:52AM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> 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.

... though it shouldn't be a major one; see for instance my port to
powerpc http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/179260/ currently under
review/discussion.

Ananth