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

David Long dave.long at linaro.org
Tue Aug 11 10:03:46 PDT 2015


On 08/11/15 12:56, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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
>

I posted the last revision of that on July 27.  I don't know if they're 
"queued" somewhere.  They do affect multiple architectures so I'm not 
certain where they would get queued. They also live in a branch in my 
own Linaro repo.

Was there a better way for me to deal with this dependency?  I was 
reluctant to make this into one patch set as the other patch really does 
stand alone as a useful fix.

-dl




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