[PATCH v5 1/3] ARM: probes: check stack operation when decoding

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:20:21AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:51:15PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > (2014/08/27 22:02), Wang Nan wrote:
> > > This patch improves arm instruction decoder, allows it check whether an
> > > instruction is a stack store operation. This information is important
> > > for kprobe optimization.
> > > 
> > > For normal str instruction, this patch add a series of _SP_STACK
> > > register indicator in the decoder to test the base and offset register
> > > in ldr <Rt>, [<Rn>, <Rm>] against sp.
> > > 
> > > For stm instruction, it check sp register in instruction specific
> > > decoder.
> > 
> > OK, reviewed. but since I'm not so sure about arm32 ISA,
> > I need help from ARM32 maintainer to ack this.
> 
> What you actually need is an ack from the ARM kprobes people who
> understand this code.  That would be much more meaningful than my
> ack.  They're already on the Cc list.

Tixy, can you take a look please?

Will