From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757148AbYBGQ5t (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:57:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753094AbYBGQ5l (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:57:41 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:42830 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751283AbYBGQ5k (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:57:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:57:21 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jason Wessel Cc: lkml , phil.el@wanadoo.fr, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] x86: oprofile 32bit stack traces on 64bit kernel Message-ID: <20080207085721.4a4e36ee@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <47A88CE4.3070205@windriver.com> References: <47A88CE4.3070205@windriver.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.3; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:20:52 -0600 Jason Wessel wrote: > > There are multiple ways to write the same code, hence the reason this > is listed as an RFC patch. I wanted to provide a working fix to > account for the case of executing 32 bit and 64 bit user space code on > a 64 bit kernel. > > -----CLIP HERE------- > > Allow oprofile's backtrace to work on a 32bit user space thread when > running on a 64bit kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel looks sane; it'll be better than what is there now at least and it's safe enough Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven