Re: [PATCH][RFC] x86: oprofile 32bit stack traces on 64bit kernel

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 11:57:50 EST


On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:20:52 -0600
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> There are multiple ways to write the same code, hence the reason this
> is listed as an RFC patch. I wanted to provide a working fix to
> account for the case of executing 32 bit and 64 bit user space code on
> a 64 bit kernel.
>
> -----CLIP HERE-------
>
> Allow oprofile's backtrace to work on a 32bit user space thread when
> running on a 64bit kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



looks sane; it'll be better than what is there now at least
and it's safe enough

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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