Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: Emulate nop too
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <hidden>
Date: 2010-05-28 03:53:30
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <hidden>
Date: 2010-05-28 03:53:30
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
On May 27, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:quoted
Hi Paul, While we are at it, can we also add nop to the list of emulated instructions?Dare I ask why we need to emulate nop?
We are close to getting userspace probes done. Some userspace apps that've gained 'markers' from DTrace or elsewhere, are being enabled to expose those in through debuginfo on Linux and the underlying instruction there is a nop. Ananth