From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com (e37.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e37.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D4042C00CF for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:46:00 +1100 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e37.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:45:57 -0600 Received: from d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.228]) by d03dlp01.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB241FF0039 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:40:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r2MBjkH0059052 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:45:49 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r2MBjkEx004749 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:45:46 -0600 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:15:43 +0530 From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli To: lkml Subject: [PATCH 2/3] uprobes/powerpc: teach uprobes to ignore gdb breakpoints Message-ID: <20130322114543.GH26183@in.ibm.com> References: <20130322114446.GG26183@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20130322114446.GG26183@in.ibm.com> Cc: ppcdev , oleg@redhat.com, Srikar Dronamraju Reply-To: ananth@in.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Powerpc has many trap variants that could be used by entities like gdb. Currently, running gdb on a program being traced by uprobes causes an endless loop since uprobes doesn't understand that the trap was inserted by some other entity and a SIGTRAP needs to be delivered. Teach uprobes to ignore breakpoints that do not belong to it. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli --- arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) Index: linux-3.9-rc3/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.9-rc3.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c +++ linux-3.9-rc3/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c @@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ #define UPROBE_TRAP_NR UINT_MAX /** + * is_trap_insn - check if the instruction is a trap variant + * @insn: instruction to be checked. + * Returns true if @insn is a trap variant. + */ +bool is_trap_insn(uprobe_opcode_t *insn) +{ + return (is_trap(*insn)); +} + +/** * arch_uprobe_analyze_insn * @mm: the probed address space. * @arch_uprobe: the probepoint information.