Re: [PATCH] Move kprobes examples to samples/ (resend)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:09:25 +0530 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:00:45AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:09:19 +0530 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Move kprobes examples from Documentation/kprobes.txt to under samples/.
> > > Patch originally by Randy Dunlap.
> > > 
> > > In addition, I have
> > > 
> > > o Updated the patch to apply on 2.6.23-mm1
> > > o Modified examples code to build on multiple architectures. Currently,
> > >   the examples code works for x86_64, x86_32 and powerpc
> > > o Cleaned up unneeded #includes
> > 
> > Could you please take a look at what's needed to get this working on sparc64?
> > 
> > samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c: In function `ret_handler':
> > samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c:19: error: implicit declaration of function `regs_return_value'
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> As Davem mentions, these are a fallout of sparc64 not having kretprobe
> support. As a followup to this mail, I am sending a couple of patches
> that should fix the issue (sparc64 cross compile works fine with the
> patches).
> 

Thanks.

> This patch depends on Mathieu Desnoyers' "Instrumentation menu removal"
> patchset (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119496432229633&w=2)

argh.  OK, I'll look at this later in the week.