[PATCH 0/2] tracing/wprobe: Fix to avoid inifinite watchpoint exception on arm64

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google)]

Hi,

Here are patches which fixes a wprobe bug reported by Mark Brown on
arm64[1]. The root cause was that the infinite watchpoint exception on
the same instruction, because arm64 watchpoint exception happens before
the memory access has done, it needs to configure a single-step after
calling overflow handler. It does that only for the default overflow
handlers, and not for custom overflow handler registered via
hw_breakpoint interface.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aPvwGhMBJqMKcC9D@finisterre.sirena.org.uk/

To fix this issue, this series introduces default_overflow_compatible
flag in the perf_event and use it for identifying default overflow
handlers instead of checking handler functions everytime[1/2], and
set it in wprobe[2/2].

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (2):
      perf: Introduce default_overflow_compatible flag
      tracing: wprobe: Make wprobe_handler default overflow_handler compatible


 include/linux/perf_event.h  |    9 ++-------
 kernel/events/core.c        |    2 ++
 kernel/trace/trace_wprobe.c |    7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat at kernel.org>