From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261183AbUKRWvP (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:51:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263003AbUKRWtM (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:49:12 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:44452 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262910AbUKRWnk (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:43:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:47:46 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: ananth@in.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, davem@davemloft.net, prasanna@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry Message-Id: <20041118144746.7daa9395.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041118102641.GB8830@in.ibm.com> References: <20041118102641.GB8830@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > Here is a patch that adds a wrapper for defining jprobe.entry to make > it easy to handle the three dword function descriptors defined by the > PowerPC ELF ABI. > > Current patch against 2.6.10-rc2-mm1 + kprobes patch for ppc64. I don't have the kprobes-for-ppc64 patch here. > Changes for adding this wrapper for x86, ppc64 (tested) and x86_64 > (untested) below. The earlier method of defining jprobe.entry will > continue to work. So what should I do with this? I'm inclined to drop it until the x86_64 part has been tested and Dave has had a go at the sparc64 version.