[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Sun Nov 6 06:31:51 AEDT 2016
Hi,
> kprobe, uprobe, hw-breakpoint and xmon are the only user of
> emulate_step.
>
> Kprobe / uprobe single-steps instruction if they can't emulate it, so
> there is no problem with them. As I mention, hw-breakpoint is broken.
> However I'm not sure about xmon, I need to check that.
I was mostly concerned that it would impact kprobes. Sounds like we are
ok there.
> So yes, there is no user-visible feature that depends on this.
Aren't hardware breakpoints exposed via perf? I'd call perf
user-visible.
Anton
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