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linux/arch/sparc64
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 3a872d89ba [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable
In an effort to make kprobe modules more portable, here is a patch that:

o Introduces the "symbol_name" field to struct kprobe.
  The symbol->address resolution now happens in the kernel in an
  architecture agnostic manner. 64-bit powerpc users no longer have
  to specify the ".symbols"
o Introduces the "offset" field to struct kprobe to allow a user to
  specify an offset into a symbol.
o The legacy mechanism of specifying the kprobe.addr is still supported.
  However, if both the kprobe.addr and kprobe.symbol_name are specified,
  probe registration fails with an -EINVAL.
o The symbol resolution code uses kallsyms_lookup_name(). So
  CONFIG_KPROBES now depends on CONFIG_KALLSYMS
o Apparantly kprobe modules were the only legitimate out-of-tree user of
  the kallsyms_lookup_name() EXPORT. Now that the symbol resolution
  happens in-kernel, remove the EXPORT as suggested by Christoph Hellwig
o Modify tcp_probe.c that uses the kprobe interface so as to make it
  work on multiple platforms (in its earlier form, the code wouldn't
  work, say, on powerpc)

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
..
boot [SPARC64]: Add .gitignore file for sparc64 boot images. 2006-02-05 00:15:11 -08:00
kernel [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
lib Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
math-emu [SPARC64] math-emu: Delete debugging printk left by previous commit. 2006-03-20 01:13:53 -08:00
mm [SPARC64]: Kill bogus check from bootmem_init(). 2006-09-26 23:14:21 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
prom [SPARC]: Kill prom_getname, unused and not implemented properly. 2006-07-21 14:17:55 -07:00
solaris [PATCH] solaris emulation: incorrect tty locking 2006-09-29 09:18:18 -07:00
defconfig [SPARC64]: Update defconfig. 2006-09-26 23:10:01 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable 2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug options 2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Makefile [SPARC64]: Stop putting -finline-limit=XXX into CFLAGS 2005-12-20 14:53:05 -08:00