Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] ppc32/kprobe: Fix a bug for kprobe stwu r1

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 17:15 +0800, tiejun.chen wrote:
> Tiejun Chen wrote:
> > Changes from V1:
> > 
> > * use memcpy simply to withdraw copy_exc_stack
> > * add !(regs->msr & MSR_PR)) and
> > 	WARN_ON(test_thread_flag(TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE));
> >   to make sure we're in goot path.
> > * move this migration process inside 'restore'
> > * clear TIF flag atomically 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Is this series OK?

Not completely sorry. I was about to send you some comments a couple of
weeks ago then had to leave urgently and forgot about it, then started
rewriting your code and didn't finish :-)

I'll give you some more feedback asap, sorry about that. It's getting
there but there's a couple of things I'd like to see done a bit
differently.

Cheers,
Ben.

> Thanks
> Tiejun
> 
> > 
> > Tiejun Chen (3):
> >       powerpc/kprobe: introduce a new thread flag
> >       ppc32/kprobe: complete kprobe and migrate exception frame
> >       ppc32/kprobe: don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h |    3 ++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S         |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c               |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Tiejun