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Re: Need more information on uProbes .

From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: ananth at in dot ibm dot com
Cc: Diptopal Basu <diptopal dot basu at gmail dot com>, systemtap at sourceware dot org, utrace-devel at redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:09:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Need more information on uProbes .
References: <bd97640b0903310525h5144974fr6daaf32e82aeb38b@mail.gmail.com> <20090331130632.GA6358@in.ibm.com>

ananth wrote:

> Uprobes is implemented only for architectures that have utrace support
> (x86-32, x86_64, powerpc, s390, but not IA64). [...]

(HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK is on for ia64, sparc, sh also, so utrace per se
should work there.)

> [...]  For ARM though, the utrace layer needs to be implemented and
> uprobes ported over. [...]

Roland et al., has there been any recent report on
regset/tracehook-on-arm porting?

- FChE

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- Need more information on uProbes .
  - From: Diptopal Basu
- Re: Need more information on uProbes .
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