[linux-yocto] utrace in recent linux-yocto kernels

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-08-03 12:24 PM, Wade Farnsworth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While looking through the linux-yocto repositories, I notice that while
> linux-yocto-3.0 has the utrace patchset merged, it appears that 3.2 and
> 3.4 do not. utrace is necessary for proper systemtap userspace probe
> support on these kernel versions, so it would be nice to have it available.
>
> Is there any intention to include this series in 3.2 and later kernels?

There is! utrace is largely upstream in 3.5, and a backport is already
done to 3.4, but pending some work to re-enable systemtap functionality
on top of it.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Regards,
>
> Wade Farnsworth
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