linux/arch/x86_64
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
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boot [PATCH] Fix boot code head.S warning 2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
ia32 [PATCH] sysctl: Allow /proc/sys without sys_sysctl 2006-09-27 08:26:19 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
lib [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user 2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
mm [PATCH] Generic ioremap_page_range: x86_64 conversion 2006-10-01 00:39:32 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line 2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable 2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, x86_64 support 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder 2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
defconfig [PATCH] Update defconfig 2006-09-30 01:47:54 +02:00