RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-23 Thread Turgis, Frederic
[mailto:m...@redhat.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:13 AM To: Turgis, Frederic Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler; utrace-devel@redhat.com; Roland McGrath Subject: Re: utrace support on ARM > I will see if I can interest people in TI and Linaro. > I will need a good story... ;-) This desc

Re: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
> I will see if I can interest people in TI and Linaro. > I will need a good story... ;-) This describes why you want user_regset: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/616284 This describes why you want tracehooks: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/707950 Both those patch sets hav

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-22 Thread Roland McGrath
> I will see if I can interest people in TI and Linaro. I will need a good > story... ;-) It is kernel port modernization work that nearly every other platform has done by now.

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-22 Thread Turgis, Frederic
R.C.S Antibes. Capital de EUR 753.920 -Original Message- From: Mark Wielaard [mailto:m...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 10:18 AM To: Roland McGrath Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler; utrace-devel@redhat.com; Turgis, Frederic Subject: Re: utrace support on ARM > utrace per se has no mach

Re: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
> utrace per se has no machine-dependent code. It requires modern > support for machine dependencies in generic kernel code, > i.e. user_regset and tracehook. The ARM kernel has a tiny > subset of those, but not enough to be useful. > Long ago I did 98% of the work for implementing user_regset > a

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-21 Thread Roland McGrath
utrace per se has no machine-dependent code. It requires modern support for machine dependencies in generic kernel code, i.e. user_regset and tracehook. The ARM kernel has a tiny subset of those, but not enough to be useful. Long ago I did 98% of the work for implementing user_regset and traceho

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-21 Thread Turgis, Frederic
UR 753.920 -Original Message- From: Frank Ch. Eigler [mailto:f...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:51 PM To: Turgis, Frederic Cc: utrace-devel@redhat.com; Mark Wielaard Subject: Re: utrace support on ARM f-turgis wrote: > [...] > So I am interested in this kind of status: > >

Re: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-21 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
f-turgis wrote: > [...] > So I am interested in this kind of status: > > * utrace has not been accepted upstream. Does it mean it may lose > traction ? Is "community" pushing for something else or happy with > what they have ? [...] There are many communities. I am not anticipating additional u

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Turgis, On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:00 +0200, Turgis, Frederic wrote: > * utrace has not been accepted upstream. Does it mean it may lose > traction ? Is "community" pushing for something else or happy with > what they have ? Parts haven't. utrace builds upon regsets and tracehooks, which are bot

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-20 Thread Turgis, Frederic
Villeneuve Loubet. 036 420 040 R.C.S Antibes. Capital de EUR 753.920 -Original Message- From: Mark Wielaard [mailto:m...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 5:26 PM To: Turgis, Frederic Cc: utrace-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: utrace support on ARM On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 16:26 +02

Re: utrace support on ARM

2011-03-29 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 16:26 +0200, Turgis, Frederic wrote: > - http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace is no longer valid. Where has > it been moved ? http://userweb.kernel.org/~frob/utrace/ > - Mail archive in https://www.redhat.com/archives/utrace-devel/ stops > in December. Did I miss something

utrace support on ARM

2011-03-29 Thread Turgis, Frederic
Hi all, In the scope of profiling work with systemtap, I would like to test systemtap user-space probing capabilities based on uprobes/utrace. - is anyone maintaining some port for ARM architecture ? - http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace is no longer valid. Where has it been moved ? (think