Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2013-03-22

Re: [PATCH 1/3] uprobes: add trap variant helper

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: 2013-03-22 14:56:29
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On 03/22, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
+/**
+ * is_trap_insn - check if instruction is breakpoint instruction.
+ * @insn: instruction to be checked.
+ * Default implementation of is_trap_insn
+ * Returns true if @insn is a breakpoint instruction.
+ *
+ * This function is needed for the case where an architecture has multiple
+ * trap instructions (like powerpc).
+ */
+bool __weak is_trap_insn(uprobe_opcode_t *insn)
+{
+	return is_swbp_insn(insn);
+}
OK, thanks, the whole series looks fine, just one note...

My patch also changed prepare_uprobe() to use is_trap_insn(), and I think
this is right. Exactly because of 3/3 which removes is_trap() from
arch_uprobe_analyze_insn().

If the original insn is_trap(), we do not want to singlestep it and get
another trap after we hit handle_swbp().

Oleg.
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