On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 12:17 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > I'm not sure how to test it - but it looks somewhat suspect. You could apply the first patch and this patch and see if ftrace still works :) > > The difficulty is in the way that ia64 tools report program addresses within bundles. > > ia64 crams 3 41-bit instructions (and a 5-bit template) into a 16-byte "bundle". > > Some tools report consecutive addresses like this: > > 0x000 > 0x001 > 0x002 > 0x010 > 0x011 > 0x012 > > where the low nibble is the instruction number within the bundle. Others go > for: > > 0x000 > 0x006 > 0x00c > 0x010 > 0x016 > 0x01c > > with the illusion that instructions take 6-byte, 6bytes, 4-bytes. And I'm amazed that this wonderful architecture didn't become the defacto for all users! > > This patch does some fast and loose translation from hex (0x12) in the kernel > to decimal (18) in the user tools ... which doesn't look like it fits with > either of these conventions. Could be broken. I'll leave it out of my next push. Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
