[RFC 1/8] ARM64: Move BRK opcodes defines from kprobes.h to insn.h

Pratyush Anand panand at redhat.com
Thu Jan 8 09:31:12 PST 2015



On Thursday 08 January 2015 10:25 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Pratyush Anand wrote:
>> Its better to keep all BRK opcodes used by kprobes and uprobes at one
>> place. Therefore move these defines to asm/insn.h.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h | 6 ++++++
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.h   | 7 +------
>>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> index e2ff32a93b5c..87fa48746806 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
>>   /* A64 instructions are always 32 bits. */
>>   #define	AARCH64_INSN_SIZE		4
>>
>> +/* BRK opcodes with ESR encoding  */
>> +#define BRK64_ESR_MASK		0xFFFF
>> +#define BRK64_ESR_KPROBES	0x0004
>> +#define BRK64_OPCODE_KPROBES	0xD4200080	/* "brk 0x4" */
>
> These might be better off in debug-monitors.h, but I guess that's for the
> kprobes series to sort out.
>

Agreed.

~Pratyush
>> +#define ARCH64_NOP_OPCODE	0xD503201F
>
> We have aarch64_insn_gen_nop for this.
>
> Will
>



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