[PATCH v8 0/7] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Aug 11 09:56:45 PDT 2015


Hi David,

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 01:52:37AM +0100, David Long wrote:
> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long at linaro.org>
> 
> This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches,
> first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised by
> reviewers and also fixes problems discovered during testing.
> 
> This patchset adds support for kernel probes(kprobes), jump probes(jprobes)
> and return probes(kretprobes) support for ARM64.
> 
> The kprobes mechanism makes use of software breakpoint and single stepping
> support available in the ARM v8 kernel.
> 
> This patch depends on:
> 	[PATCH 1/2] Move the pt_regs_offset struct definition from arch to common include file
> 	[PATCH 2/2] Consolidate redundant register/stack access code

Are these two queued somewhere? This series doesn't even build without
them.

Will



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list