[v3][PATCH 1/3] powerpc/kprobe: introduce a new thread flag

Tiejun Chen tiejun.chen at windriver.com
Tue Sep 11 12:20:51 EST 2012


We need to add a new thread flag, TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE,
for emulating stack store operation while exiting exception.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen at windriver.com>
---
v3:
* rebase on next
* restore those clobbered registers
* add for 64-bit
* retest with kprobe do_fork()/show_interrupts()
	for fsl-p4080 and fsl-p5020, separately

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
index e942203..8ceea14 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
 #define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	13	/* callback before returning to user */
 #define TIF_UPROBE		14	/* breakpointed or single-stepping */
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT	15	/* syscall tracepoint instrumentation */
+#define TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE	16	/* Is an instruction emulation
+						for stack store? */
 
 /* as above, but as bit values */
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	(1<<TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)
@@ -121,6 +123,7 @@ static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
 #define _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	(1<<TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME)
 #define _TIF_UPROBE		(1<<TIF_UPROBE)
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT	(1<<TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)
+#define _TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE	(1<<TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE)
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A	(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | \
 				 _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)
 
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1.7.9.5



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