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Re: Status of ARM user-space support?
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:28 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > [...]
> >>> The arm work was posted upstream on 4/24, but there have been
> >>> no replies from ARM folks. [...]
> > [...]
> > When it said "arm work finished" after the bullet item "get arm and
> > mips converted to regsets and uprobes", I thought that meant that the
> > arm work was finished for regsets and uprobes.
>
> Yeah. Roland's work has enabled ARM utrace (not uprobes), but for
> whatever reason hasn't been merged yet. ezannoni erred in mentioning
> uprobes. It would be nice if someone providing ARM distro and
> interested in systemtap were to get in touch to fill in the missing
> bits.
>
> - FChE
Yes. Neither uprobes nor utrace is upstream. The version of uprobes
that ships with SystemTap requires utrace. I can email you our uprobes
porting guide, Grant, but of course it's not much use if your ARM system
doesn't include utrace.
Jim Keniston