Prelinking on ARM with Debug Link

[Torsten Polle]

David Smith writes:
 > On 12/01/2015 02:10 PM, Torsten Polle wrote:
 >> Hi David,
 >> 
 >> David Smith writes:
 >> > I don't believe we've ever supported an arm/arm64 kernel less than 3.7,
 >> 
 >> I'm using SystemTap successfully with a 2.6.34 kernel on ARM since 4
 >> years now. So far it worked without much problems.
 >> 
 >> > so there isn't arch-specific execve support for arm/arm64. But, if you
 >> > have got working execve support for arm/arm64 kernels less than 3.7, I
 >> > don't see a real problem with checking it in (assuming it looks reasonable).
 >> 
 >> I've support that is working in my environment. At least the defined
 >> variables give some decent result. Please judge the quality for yourself.
 >> 
 >> The error message reported comes from the fact that the file
 >> syscalls.stp is regarded as empty by SystemTap if the kernel version is
 >> greater then 3.7. I could not find a nice solution so far.

 > Torsten,

 > I've checked in your changes, they all looked reasonable. I added
 > support for nd_syscall.execve. I worked around the empty tapset warning
 > by adding a 'never' probe the the new tapset files.

David,

Thanks,
Torsten