[PATCH v2 0/4] arm64: Fix single-step handling
Luis Machado
luis.machado at linaro.org
Fri Jul 3 06:52:34 EDT 2020
Hi Will,
On 7/2/20 6:26 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is version two of the patches I previously posted here:
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200603151033.11512-1-will@kernel.org/
>
> Thanks to Keno for a bunch of helpful feedback on that, which has led to
> the following major changes for v2:
>
> - Use pseudo-step traps for both entering a signal handler and exiting a
> system call.
>
> - Document our weird x7 behaviour with PTRACE_SYSCALL.
>
> It has to be said that I'm a bit nervous about these changes. I played
> around with GDB and things seemed ok, but I would really appreciate it
> if Luis could run the GDB testsuite with these changes applied.
Thanks for working on this. I'll need some time to give this a go. I'll
let you know what the results are.
Do I only need to exercise the AArch64 state? Or would this impact
AArch32 as well?
Regards,
Luis
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