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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, ananth@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	randy.dunlap@oracle.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com,
	prasanna@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move kprobes examples to samples/ (resend)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:53:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113125326.GA16455@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113.040342.178304306.davem@davemloft.net>

* David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:00:45 -0800
> 
> > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:09:19 +0530 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Move kprobes examples from Documentation/kprobes.txt to under samples/.
> > > Patch originally by Randy Dunlap.
> > > 
> > > In addition, I have
> > > 
> > > o Updated the patch to apply on 2.6.23-mm1
> > > o Modified examples code to build on multiple architectures. Currently,
> > >   the examples code works for x86_64, x86_32 and powerpc
> > > o Cleaned up unneeded #includes
> > 
> > Could you please take a look at what's needed to get this working on sparc64?
> > 
> > samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c: In function `ret_handler':
> > samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c:19: error: implicit declaration of function `regs_return_value'
> 
> kretprobes support most likely, it's on my todo list to implement
> but it will take a while since I'm busy fixing networking bugs
> but I can stop doing that if you like.
> 
> :-)

I wonder if compiling this example makes sense when
ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES is not defined ? We could just use a
obj-$ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES to compile the example conditionally.

Mathieu


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Mathieu Desnoyers
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21 12:39 [PATCH] Move kprobes examples to samples/ (resend) Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-11-13 12:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-13 12:03   ` David Miller
2007-11-13 12:53     ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2007-11-13 15:39   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-11-13 15:47     ` [patch 1/2] Kprobes: Indicate kretprobe support in arch/<arch>/Kconfig Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-11-13 15:50       ` [patch 2/2] Kprobes: Build kretprobe samples only if arch supports kretprobes Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-12-08  0:35       ` [patch 1/2] Kprobes: Indicate kretprobe support in arch/<arch>/Kconfig Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 15:16         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 20:15     ` [PATCH] Move kprobes examples to samples/ (resend) Andrew Morton

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