On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 04:00:10PM +0000, Kristina Martsenko wrote:

When a MOPS main or epilogue instruction is being executed, the task may
get scheduled on a different CPU and restart execution from the prologue
instruction. If the main or epilogue instruction is being single stepped
then it makes sense to finish the step and take the step exception
before starting to execute the next (prologue) instruction. So
fast-forward the single step state machine when taking a MOPS exception.

This means that if a main or epilogue instruction is single stepped with
ptrace, the debugger will sometimes observe the PC moving back to the
prologue instruction. (As already mentioned, this should be rare as it
only happens when the task is scheduled to another CPU during the step.)

This also ensures that perf breakpoints count prologue instructions
consistently (i.e. every time they are executed), rather than skipping
them when there also happens to be a breakpoint on a main or epilogue
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <redacted>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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