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Kprobes support for IA64

From:  Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
To:  akpm@osdl.org
Subject:  [patch 0/4] Kprobes support for IA64
Date:  Mon, 23 May 2005 08:39:06 -0700
Cc:  tony.luck@intel.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, rusty.lynch@intel.com, prasanna@in.ibm.com, ananth@in.ibm.com, systemtap@sources.redhat.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com

Hi Andrew,
	As many of you know that kprobes exist in the main line kernel
for various architecture including i386, x86_64, ppc64 and sparc64.
Attached patches following this mail are a port of Kprobes and Jprobes for IA64.

I have tesed this patches for kprobes and Jprobes and this seems to work fine.
I have tested this patch by inserting kprobes on various slots and
various templates including various types of branch instructions.

I have also tested this patch using the tool 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111657...
and the kprobes for IA64 works great.

This path depends on 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111634...
which is in your mm tree.

Here is list of TODO things and pathes for the same will appear soon.
1) Support kprobes on "mov r1=ip" type of instruction
2) Support Kprobes and Jprobes to exist on the same address
3) Support Return probes
3) Architecture independent cleanup of kprobes

I am sending this mail through quilt and looks like the subject line appear to be
same on all patches, sorry about that.

Please apply.

Thanks,

-Anil Keshavamurthy
Sr. Software Engineer
Open Source Technology Center/SSG
Intel Corp.
(w) 503-712-4476

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