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Re: A question on PPC32
- From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>
- To: chen HJ <chenhj98 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:26:57 +0530
- Subject: Re: A question on PPC32
- References: <ea6707a00906290124n68ae8f91m9283df5421ba8128@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: ananth at in dot ibm dot com
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:24:03PM +0800, chen HJ wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A simple question, can systemTap support PPC32 now? I have tried to
> compile systemTap on MPC5121, but it needs a header file for PPC64.
The kernel side support (kprobes, tracepoints, et al) are already
available. Its quite possible that the SystemTap runtime needs a few
tweaks to get it working for ppc32
Look at __powerpc64__/__arm__ in runtime code and see if a new stub
needs to be written at those places for __powerpc__
Ananth