[PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry

David S. Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Nov 19 09:43:47 EST 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:47:46 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org> wrote:

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

Yes, now that we have kprobe support on 4 platforms, it is important
that anyone who changes public parts of this interface do the necessary
per-platform fixups necessary to coincide with such changes.

I think the person changing the data type should be the one fixing
up sparc64 :-)



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