[maemo-developers] Fwd: KProbe for kernel 2.6.21

[From: nick loeve]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: nick loeve <trickie at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2008 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: KProbe for kernel 2.6.21
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo at nokia.com>


Hello,

On Feb 1, 2008 8:20 AM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo at nokia.com> wrote:
> "ext Leandro Sales" <leandroal at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >    why I can't see CONFIG_KPROBES symbol nor KPROBES module for the
> > kernel 2.6.21 for maemo? Is there something that I have to do to have
> > this option enabled?
>
> My first question is that does Kprobes really support ARM? I recall
> that it does not.
>
> [some googling]
>
> Yes, it seems that ARM support wasn't official at the time 2.6.21 was
> released (2007-04-26):
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2007-q1/msg00082.html

I have successfully built the 2.6.21 kernel with the experimental
kprobes patches:

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=4447
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/eugeneteo/kprobes/kprobes-arm-cleanup-2.6.21.4-A1

I based this on the process described by Eugene Teo:

http://www.nabble.com/Kprobes-and-Maemo-%28N800%29-tt11540348.html
Cheers



>
> --

> Kalle Valo
>
> _______________________________________________
> maemo-developers mailing list
> maemo-developers at maemo.org
> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
>



--
Nick Loeve
www.trickie.org



-- 
Nick Loeve
www.trickie.org