[PATCH v12 05/10] arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support
Huang Shijie
shijie.huang at arm.com
Tue May 17 02:10:12 PDT 2016
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:53:00PM -0400, David Long wrote:
> From: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu at gmail.com>
> +
> +static bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_steppable(u32 insn)
Could we add more comment for this function? In the comment, we can tell
that which type of instructions are steppable, which are not.
> +{
> + if (aarch64_get_insn_class(insn) == AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS) {
> + if (aarch64_insn_is_branch(insn) ||
> + aarch64_insn_is_msr_imm(insn) ||
> + aarch64_insn_is_msr_reg(insn) ||
> + aarch64_insn_is_exception(insn))
> + return false;
> +
> + if (aarch64_insn_is_mrs(insn))
> + return aarch64_insn_extract_system_reg(insn)
> + != AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DAIF;
> +
> + if (aarch64_insn_is_hint(insn))
> + return aarch64_insn_is_nop(insn);
> +
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> + if (aarch64_insn_uses_literal(insn) ||
> + aarch64_insn_is_exclusive(insn))
> + return false;
> +
> + return true;
Thanks
Huang Shijie
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