[PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry

[Andrew Morton]

Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in.ibm.com> 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.