RFC: kprobes support for ppc32

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Jan 30 21:46:30 EST 2007


On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:13:32AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> +	depends on !BOOKE && KALLSYMS && EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES

Just curious: what's the problem with BOOKE?

> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
>   	regs->nip = (unsigned long)(((func_descr_t *)jp->entry)->entry);
>   	regs->gpr[2] = (unsigned long)(((func_descr_t *)jp->entry)->toc);
> +#else
> +	regs->nip = (unsigned long)jp->entry;
> +#endif

This should probably be split int a macro.



also I think you should not define kprobe_lookup_name for the 32bit
case as the generic version should be fine for ppc32



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