[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.
> 
>  I have now tested the patch succesfully on x86_64 and updated it for
>  sparc64 too (Dave says the change looks good).

What is the review and testing status of the kprobes-for-ppc64 patch which
you sent?