From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com (e38.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e38.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92BDDB6FB6 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:21:34 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e38.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:21:32 -0600 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3143E40049 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:20:38 +0000 (WET) Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q586KDQh082564 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:20:23 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q586JuYD021227 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:19:57 -0600 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:49:55 +0530 From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli To: Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] uprobes: powerpc port Message-ID: <20120608061954.GE13409@in.ibm.com> References: <20120606091950.GB6745@in.ibm.com> <20120606092150.GC6745@in.ibm.com> <1338974822.2749.89.camel@twins> <20120606093541.GA29580@in.ibm.com> <1339006084.3458.25.camel@localhost> <20120608043605.GB13409@in.ibm.com> <1339134714.25573.4.camel@concordia> <20120608060104.GD13409@in.ibm.com> <1339136264.25573.7.camel@concordia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1339136264.25573.7.camel@concordia> Cc: Jim Keniston , Srikar Dronamraju , Peter Zijlstra , oleg@redhat.com, lkml , Paul Mackerras , Anton Blanchard , Ingo Molnar , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Reply-To: ananth@in.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:17:44PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:31 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:51:54PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 10:06 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Jim Keniston wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 15:05 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:27:02AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 14:51 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > For the kernel, the only ones that are off limits are rfi (return from > > > > > > interrupt), mtmsr (move to msr). All other instructions can be probed. > > > > > > > > > > > > Both those instructions are supervisor level, so we won't see them in > > > > > > userspace at all; so we should be able to probe all user level > > > > > > instructions. > > > > > > > > > > Presumably rfi or mtmsr could show up in the instruction stream via an > > > > > erroneous or mischievous asm statement. It'd be good to verify that you > > > > > handle that gracefully. > > > > > > > > That'd be flagged elsewhere, by the architecture itself -- you'd get a > > > > privileged instruciton exception if you try execute any instruction not > > > > part of the UISA. I therefore don't think its a necessary check in the > > > > uprobes code. > > > > > > But you're not executing the instruction, you're passing it to > > > emulate_step(). Or am I missing something? > > > > But MSR_PR=1 and hence emulate_step() will return -1 and hence we will > > end up single-stepping using user_enable_single_step(). Same with rfid. > > Right. But that was exactly Jim's point, you may be asked to emulate > those instructions even though you wouldn't expect to see them in > userspace code, so you need to handle it. > > Luckily it looks like emulate_step() will do the right thing for you. > It'd be good to test it to make 100% sure. Sure. Will add that check and send v2. Ananth