On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 22:05:21 +0100
Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Around Wed 06 Nov 2013 12:43:30 -0500 or thereabout, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > Although there's a arch/avr32/kernel/kprobes.c file, this arch does not
> > compile with kprobes enabled:
> > 
> >  In file included from cross-linux.git/arch/avr32/kernel/kprobes.c:14:
> >  cross-linux.git/include/linux/kprobes.h: In function 'get_kprobe_ctlblk':
> >  cross-linux.git/include/linux/kprobes.h:358: error: invalid use of 
> > undefined type 'struct kprobe_ctlblk'
> >  cross-linux.git/include/linux/kprobes.h:358: error: dereferencing pointer 
> > to incomplete type
> >  make[2]: *** [arch/avr32/kernel/kprobes.o] Error 1
> > 
> > This is because it does not define the required kprobe_ctlblk struct,
> > and fails to compile when CONFIG_KPROBES is set.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this also makes my testing of various configs for
> > different archs to fail on avr32 as well.
> > 
> > If kprobes is not supported by avr32 than do not say that it is.
> 
> kprobes is supposed to be supported on AVR32, but it seems to have broken
> somewhere down the road.
> 
> I re-discovered an old patch fixing this from Eirik, I have added this to my
> for-linus branch instead of your proposed patch.
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/linux-avr32.git/log/?h=for-linus
> 

That works too! I was hoping for a similar fix. I sent my patch more as
an incentive to get kprobes fixed than to disable it ;-)

Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> # only cross compiled tested

-- Steve
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