[PATCH] powerpc/uprobes: teach uprobes to ignore gdb breakpoints

Oleg Nesterov oleg at redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 03:00:02 EST 2013


On 03/21, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
?
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:07:28PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 03/20, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 01:43:01PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > On 03/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > IOW, if I wasn't clear... Lets forget about gdb/etc for the moment.
> > > > Suppose we apply the patch below. Will uprobes on powerpc work?
> > > >
> > > > If yes, then your patch should be fine. If not, we probably need more
> > > > changes.
> > >
> > > Yes, it will work fine.
> >
> > Even if this new insn is conditional?
>
> Yes.

But this can't be true. If it is conditional, it won't always generate a
trap, this means uprobe won't actually work.

Oleg.



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