[PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc: Uprobes port to powerpc
Oleg Nesterov
oleg at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 02:59:31 EST 2012
On 07/26, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
>
> From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in.ibm.com>
>
> This is the port of uprobes to powerpc. Usage is similar to x86.
I am just curious why this series was ignored by powerpc maintainers...
Of course I can not review this code, I know nothing about powerpc,
but the patches look simple/straightforward.
Paul, Benjamin?
Just one question... Shouldn't arch_uprobe_pre_xol() forbid to probe
UPROBE_SWBP_INSN (at least) ?
(I assume that emulate_step() can't handle this case but of course I
do not understand arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c)
Note that uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier() sets utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT
without any checks. This doesn't look right if it was UTASK_SSTEP...
But again, I do not know what powepc will actually do if we try to
single-step over UPROBE_SWBP_INSN.
Oleg.
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