Re: systemtap support arm?

[Jovi Zhang <bookjovi at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 16:05 +0800, Jovi Zhang wrote:
>> - arm now have a uprobes port which enables user probes. This still
>>   requires some kernel patches (user_regsets and tracehook support for arm).
>>
>> But there don't have arm uprobe porting in Linux kernel mainline right
>> now(only x86), so where is this arm uprobes kernel part? Thanks.
>
> The utrace based uprobes arm code is under
> runtime/uprobes2/uprobes_arm.c in the systemtap source tree.
> See also http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2011-q4/msg00134.html
> This would need porting to the inode based uprobes that is now in the
> linux 3.5 mainline tree.
>
Mark, very thanks for given this information, I will take some time to
check if there
have way to let it support mainline inode based uporbe.

.jovi