Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759267Ab2EJLsI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 07:48:08 -0400 Received: from mail7.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.42]:40170 "EHLO mail7.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754992Ab2EJLsG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 07:48:06 -0400 X-AuditID: b753bd60-a2688ba000000655-9a-4fabaaf29305 X-AuditID: b753bd60-a2688ba000000655-9a-4fabaaf29305 Message-ID: <4FABAAE9.6040701@hitachi.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:47:53 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu Organization: Hitachi, Ltd., Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt , Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , LKML , Oleg Nesterov , Christoph Hellwig , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Anton Arapov , Stephen Boyd , yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v20] tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo References: <20120508111126.21004.38285.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com> <1336476588.16236.20.camel@twins> <1336481312.14207.164.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <1336483073.16236.37.camel@twins> <4FAA06C8.6050700@hitachi.com> <1336561050.2527.14.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1336561050.2527.14.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 28 (2012/05/09 19:57), Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 14:55 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> Would you mean SIB + displacement addressing? :) > > Yeah something like that. Basically something that's powerful enough to > cover all things directly addressable by an architecture (for all > archs). So that if you put a probe at a specific location you can indeed > obtain all life variables at that spot. > > This would include segment prefixes for x86 so we can get at per-cpu > variables. Ah, right. Hmm, the problem is that this interface's syntax should be arch-independent. It need to be extended to support more complex addressing mode. Thank you for the request! -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/