v4 version of kprobes64 patch

William Cohen wcohen@redhat.com
Tue Dec 23 20:37:00 GMT 2014


On 12/23/2014 01:08 PM, David Long wrote:
> Sorry it took so long but I've now added a "kprobes64-v4" branch to my repo:
> 
> http://git.linaro.org/people/dave.long/linux.git
> 
> ...which should address the issues from the last review of the v3 version.  It includes Steve Cappers interrupt fix, in place of Will Cohen's.  I had to redo a rather central part of the patch to (hopefully) satisy the coment that I should be making more use of insn.[hc].  I elected to replace the table-driven parsing with a slightly lengthy if statement instead, since there are a limited number of cases where we have to recognize special cases for instructions.
> 
> My branch is backed by the upstream v3.18 final version.  Patches backed by the fedorahosted repo can be supplied on request.
> 
> I know it's the holidays for most people, but if anyone wants to exercise this patch set please give me some feedback.  I will be checking mail over the holidays.
> 
> -dl

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the updated arm64 kprobe patches.  I am getting a new kernel with the patches built and will exercise it with systemtap.

-Will



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