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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] arm64: Add uprobe support
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:56:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160824155649.GG16944@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160824154711.GA25531@redhat.com>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 05:47:11PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/24, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think we want user_{enable,disable{_single_step in the long term,
> > > please look at 9bd1190a11c9d2 "uprobes/x86: Do not (ab)use TIF_SINGLESTEP
> > > /user_*_single_step() for single-stepping". it seems that ARM64 sets/clears
> > > TIF_SINGLESTEP. You can also lool at saved_tf logic, probably ARM64 needs
> > > the same.
> >
> > IIUC, then you mean that TIF_SINGLESTEP is a per task flag,
> 
> Yes, and nobody but ptrace should use it, otherwise ptrace/uprobes can confuse
> each other. And uprobes simply doesn't need to set/clear it.

We're already using it for kprobes, hw_breakpoint and kgdb as well as
ptrace, so I'd rather uprobes either followed existing practice, or we
converted everybody off the current code.

In what way do things get confused?

> > while
> > arch_uprobe_pre/post_xol() should enable/disable single stepping using a per
> > uprobe_task,
> 
> I can't really answer since I know nothing about arm. x86 just needs to set
> X86_EFLAGS_TF, I guess arm needs to modify some register too?

We have {user,kernel}_{enable,disable}_single_step for managing the various
registers controlling the single-step state machine on arm64.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-24 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02  5:30 [PATCH 0/5] ARM64: Uprobe support added Pratyush Anand
2016-08-02  5:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm64: kprobe: protect/rename few definitions to be reused by uprobe Pratyush Anand
2016-08-02  5:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm64: kgdb_step_brk_fn: ignore other's exception Pratyush Anand
2016-08-02  5:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm64: Handle TRAP_HWBRKPT for user mode as well Pratyush Anand
2016-09-06 16:11   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-06 21:36     ` David Long
2016-09-07  4:47       ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-07 13:41       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-08-02  5:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm64: Handle TRAP_BRKPT " Pratyush Anand
2016-09-06 16:34   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-08-02  5:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm64: Add uprobe support Pratyush Anand
2016-08-09 18:49   ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-08-24  7:13     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-24 15:47       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-08-24 15:56         ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-08-25 13:33           ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-09-20 16:59   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-21 11:00     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-21 17:04       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-22  3:23         ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-22 16:50           ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-23  4:12             ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-23 13:05               ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-25 17:02                 ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-26 11:01                   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-26 13:03                     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-27 13:51                       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-27 15:03                         ` Pratyush Anand
2016-09-28 17:12                           ` Catalin Marinas
2016-08-24  7:26 ` [PATCH 0/5] ARM64: Uprobe support added Pratyush Anand
2016-09-20  2:51   ` Pratyush Anand

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