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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:17:06 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tracing/wprobe: Fix to avoid inifinite watchpoint
 exception on arm64
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 10:37:35PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Gently ping.
> 
> There is a bugfix (or strange behavior) on arm64 hw breakpoint but
> to fix it cleanly, it should change the perf itself (but I'm not
> sure why arm64 changes the behavior only for the default overflow
> handlers.) Anyone knows it?

It's because GDB expects to handle the stepping itself when using the
ptrace interface (with a custom overflow handler to deliver SIGTRAP).

Will