[PATCH V3 3/4] arch/powerpc: Implement Optprobes

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 2016/12/25 11:54AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:48:24 +0530
> Anju T Sudhakar <anju at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Detour buffer contains instructions to create an in memory pt_regs.
> > After the execution of the pre-handler, a call is made for instruction emulation.
> > The NIP is determined in advanced through dummy instruction emulation and a branch
> > instruction is created to the NIP at the end of the trampoline.
> > 
> > Instruction slot for detour buffer is allocated from the reserved area.
> > For the time being, 64KB is reserved in memory for this purpose.
> > 
> > Instructions which can be emulated using analyse_instr() are suppliants
> > for optimization. Before optimization ensure that the address range
> > between the detour buffer allocated and the instruction being probed
> > is within ± 32MB.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Looks good to me :)
> 
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>

Thanks, Masami!

Ben/Michael,
Can you please take a look and let us know your thoughts on this?

- Naveen