Mao, Bibo wrote on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:12 PM > On IA64 kprobe can not insert trap code on slot 1 because > opcode of slot 1 crosses over two consecutive 8-bytes. On > montecito machine 16 bytes atomic operation is avaiable. > This patch adds ia64_ld16/ia64_st16 instrins in gcc header > file, implements atomic instr bundle updating by cpu feature. Let me take a giant step back and ask you a question: Have you explored all possible avenue of inserting a probe with only 8-byte write to slot 1 instruction? I think it is doable. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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