Re: Re: [PATCH v20] tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo

[Masami Hiramatsu]

(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!

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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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