Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 17:56:50 EST


Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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