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Re: A question on PPC32
Hi all,
Thanks for your response, can you provide any more detailed steps
about how to make systemTap work on PPC32?
Best Regards,
H.J
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Ananth N
Mavinakayanahalli<ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:30:22PM +0530, ashok.shanmugam@wipro.com wrote:
>> >On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:24:03PM +0800, chen HJ wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> A simple question, can systemTap support PPC32 now? I have tried to
>> >> compile systemTap on MPC5121, but it needs a header file for PPC64.
>>
>> >The kernel side support (kprobes, tracepoints, et al) are already
>> >available. Its quite possible that the SystemTap runtime needs a few
>> >tweaks to get it working for ppc32
>>
>> >Look at __powerpc64__/__arm__ in runtime code and see if a new stub
>> >needs to be written at those places for __powerpc__
>>
>> >Ananth
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Ananth,
>>
>> Can you tell me from which kernel version the PPC32 is supported for kprobes ?
>
> Kumar Gala added the patch (git commit 8209003) in Feb 2007. AFAICS, kprobes
> for ppc32 has been available since 2.6.21.
>
> Ananth
>