[PATCH] uprobes: introduce arch_uprobe->ixol

[David Long]

On 11/04/13 14:49, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> David. Perhaps we can avoid the new hook altogether? What if we do
>> the simple change below (it ignores powerpc) ?
>>
>> Then arm can add "unsigned long ixol[2]" into its arch_uprobe, and
>> arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() can initialize this member correctly.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Seriouly, how about the patch below?
>
> In fact, given that you are going to reimplement set_swbp/orig_insn,
> the new member is not strictly needed (afaics). But it looks more
> clear this way, and we need s/MAX_UINSN_BYTES/sizeof()/ anyway.
>
> Oleg.
>


Sorry for the delay, have not quite been successful in getting this to 
work yet.  Hopefully will have better results shortly.

-dl