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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64/kprobe: Fix oops when kprobed on 'stdu' instruction
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Hi Ravi,

> If we set a kprobe on a 'stdu' instruction on powerpc64, we see a
> kernel OOPS:

Ouch! We should mark this for stable.

Anton