[PATCH v6 3/6] arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri May 22 09:54:29 PDT 2015


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:49:37AM -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 07:00 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Any plans to post an updated version with the "unexpected single-step
> > error" fixed?
> 
> The only place this issue with the "unexpected single-step error" has
> been observed is with the arm64 kretporbe handler code calling kprobed
> functions.  Experiments with kprobed functions being called in the
> kprobe handlers showed that situation was handled appropriately. 
> 
> There is proposed fix to address the issue with the trampoline, the
> attached patch.  This is modeled after the way that the x86 handles
> the kretprobe.  The trampoline directly save and restores the
> registers and uses a normal call to the kretprobe handler.  It
> operates similarly to what you are suggesting above, but just for the
> special case of the kretprobes.

Thanks. I guess David will post a v7 series with this patch included and
other comments addressed.

BTW, I'll be on holiday for a week, back on the 1st of June. Hopefully
this series gets some more reviews by then ;)

-- 
Catalin



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