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From: tixy@yxit.co.uk (Tixy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ldrd/strd emulation for kprobes/ARM
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:03:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301407398.2519.153.camel@computer2.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D91E2A7.4040304@nokia.com>

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 16:46 +0300, Viktor Rosendahl wrote:

> My patch was about fixing the correctness of the emulation regarding the 
> use of the PC register as Rn. To my understanding, this is a performance 
> optimization that will optimize the register/stack usage.

Yes, its a minor performance and size issue only. When reviewing the
changes I saw that they were adding a few memory accesses which could
have be avoided.

> I am not opposed to this in any way but I really think that fixing the 
> correctness and optimizing the performance should be in separate 
> patches. Also, I already submitted my patch to RMK's patch system, so 
> you are a bit late :)

Fair enough :-)

-- 
Tixy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25 17:01 [PATCH] kprobes/arm: fix emulation of LDR/STR instruction when Rn == PC Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-25 21:19 ` Tixy
2011-03-28 15:56   ` [PATCH] Fix ldrd/strd emulation for kprobes/ARM Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-28 22:39     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-29 11:26       ` Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-29 16:55         ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-29 18:31           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-29 18:44             ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 13:42               ` [PATCH] Reject kprobes when Rn==15 and writeback is set Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-30 15:52                 ` Tixy
2011-03-30 16:46                   ` Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-30 17:20                     ` Tixy
2011-03-30 17:59                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 19:39                     ` Tixy
2011-03-30 20:48                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 14:09           ` [PATCH] Fix ldrd/strd emulation for kprobes/ARM Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-29 12:55     ` Tixy
2011-03-29 13:46       ` Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-29 14:03         ` Tixy [this message]
2011-03-29 17:07       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-28 16:27   ` [PATCH] kprobes/arm: fix emulation of LDR/STR instruction when Rn == PC Viktor Rosendahl
2011-03-29  9:12     ` Tixy
2011-03-26  2:03 ` Nicolas Pitre

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