linux/arch/powerpc
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 [POWERPC] Start arch/powerpc/boot code reorganization 2006-09-20 15:09:58 +10:00
configs Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2006-09-14 07:07:18 +10:00
kernel [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
lib [POWERPC] make spinlocks work in a combined kernel 2006-09-20 14:01:16 +10:00
math-emu Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
mm [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] oprofile: Fix unnecessary cleverness 2006-06-26 09:58:17 -07:00
platforms [PATCH] completions: lockdep annotate on stack completions 2006-10-01 00:39:24 -07:00
sysdev MSI: Rename PCI_CAP_ID_HT_IRQCONF into PCI_CAP_ID_HT 2006-09-26 17:43:52 -07:00
xmon [POWERPC] print backtrace when entering xmon 2006-09-13 18:39:53 +10:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable 2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [POWERPC] print backtrace when entering xmon 2006-09-13 18:39:53 +10:00
Makefile [POWERPC] Remove stale 64bit on 32bit kernel code 2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00