[RFC PATCH] ARM: Add generic instruction opcode manipulation helpers

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Tue Nov 29 10:27:20 EST 2011


On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:06:08PM +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 10:42 +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Do you care about being to able to set probes in Thumb user code when
> > the kernel is not Thumb-2, or do you simply not support that scenario
> > at all?  (Thinking about, I'm guessing we don't currently support that?)
> 
> kprobes are only designed to probe kernel code, that's what the 'k'
> stands for. ;-)

Right, I think I may have been confusing that with some ftrace features.

Cheers
---Dave



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