On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:21:59PM +0000, Jean Pihet wrote: > In the case of unwinding the debug info from a binary that has a different > address size than the current native platform, it is needed to record > it in the address space struct, in order to correctly parse the debug > info later. This mode is known as compat mode.
Terminology issues here.... compat mode isn't really that well defined, but typically involves a different kernel ABI. That doesn't necessarily affect the address size. > This is the case when e.g. profiling an ARMv7 binary that runs on an > ARMv8 (aka AARCH64) platform. ARMv8 != AArch64 Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
