32-bit Thumb-2 breakpoints

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:35:22PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Well, we could siphon off the PEEK calls, and special case them at
> the arch layer - it'll basically be the same hack as what you're
> suggesting, only in the kernel instead.
> 
> So really the question is whether we want a hack for this in the
> kernel or in userspace.

Agreed.  In my opinion, this is a useful thing to have in the kernel,
in order to keep the existing PTRACE_PEEKTEXT API more consistent
between architectures.  Arguments in the other direction?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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