From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tixy@yxit.co.uk (Tixy) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:33:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/5] ARM: kprobes: Fixes and additions for ARM instruction emulation (part 6) In-Reply-To: <20110428075129.GG17290@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1303206740-10101-1-git-send-email-tixy@yxit.co.uk> <20110428075129.GG17290@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <1303986831.2441.17.camel@computer2.home> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:51 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:52:15AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > (This is a sixth and final set of patches) > > > > When kprobes are inserted into code an ARM instruction is replaced > > by a breakpoint. When this is hit, the original instruction must be > > emulated out-of-line. This patchset fixes some bugs in the instruction > > decoding and adds emulation for some newer ARMv7 instructions. > > > > [PATCH 1/5] ARM: kprobes: Reject probing of undefined data processing instructions > > [PATCH 2/5] ARM: kprobes: Add emulation of MOVW and MOVT instructions > > [PATCH 3/5] ARM: kprobes: Add emulation of SBFX, UBFX, BFI and BFC instructions > > [PATCH 4/5] ARM: kprobes: Add emulation of hint instructions like NOP and WFI > > [PATCH 5/5] ARM: kprobes: Tidy-up kprobes-decode.c > > I notice that Nicolas merged the 5th set rather than this set - and > Nicolas hasn't responded to these. Please check with Nicolas whether > he's updated to the latest set. Nicolas, I see you have part 6 in your personal Linaro kprobes branch, but Russell seems to imply that this is missing from a merge you did elsewhere. (I'm unsure where this merge might be.) -- Tixy