Re: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-13 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 09:01:03AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > On 2015/05/14 0:41, William Cohen wrote: > > On 05/13/2015 05:22 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > >> On 2015/05/12 21:48, William Cohen wrote: > > > >>> Hi Dave, > >>> > >>> In some of the previous diagnostic output it looked like th

Re: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-13 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
On 2015/05/14 0:41, William Cohen wrote: > On 05/13/2015 05:22 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> On 2015/05/12 21:48, William Cohen wrote: > >>> Hi Dave, >>> >>> In some of the previous diagnostic output it looked like things would go >>> wrong >>> in the entry.S when the D bit was cleared and the d

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-13 Thread William Cohen
On 05/13/2015 03:58 PM, David Long wrote: > On 05/13/15 11:41, William Cohen wrote: >> On 05/13/2015 05:22 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >>> On 2015/05/12 21:48, William Cohen wrote: >> Hi Dave, In some of the previous diagnostic output it looked like things would go wrong i

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-13 Thread David Long
On 05/13/15 11:41, William Cohen wrote: On 05/13/2015 05:22 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: On 2015/05/12 21:48, William Cohen wrote: Hi Dave, In some of the previous diagnostic output it looked like things would go wrong in the entry.S when the D bit was cleared and the debug interrupts were un

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-13 Thread William Cohen
On 05/13/2015 05:22 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > On 2015/05/12 21:48, William Cohen wrote: >> Hi Dave, >> >> In some of the previous diagnostic output it looked like things would go >> wrong >> in the entry.S when the D bit was cleared and the debug interrupts were >> unmasksed. I wonder if so

Re: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-13 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
On 2015/05/12 21:48, William Cohen wrote: > On 05/12/2015 01:54 AM, David Long wrote: >> On 05/05/15 11:48, Will Deacon wrote: >>> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: > Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to be

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-12 Thread William Cohen
On 05/12/2015 01:54 AM, David Long wrote: > On 05/05/15 11:48, Will Deacon wrote: >> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: >>> On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to better understand what is condition causes th

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-11 Thread David Long
On 05/05/15 11:48, Will Deacon wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to better understand what is condition causes the kernel to sometimes spew: Unexpected kernel single-ste

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-05 Thread William Cohen
On 05/05/2015 05:02 PM, William Cohen wrote: > On 05/05/2015 11:48 AM, Will Deacon wrote: >> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: >>> On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to better understand what is condition c

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-05 Thread William Cohen
On 05/05/2015 11:48 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: >> On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: >>> Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to better >>> understand what is condition causes the kernel to sometimes spew: >>> >>> Unexpec

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-05 Thread William Cohen
On 05/05/2015 11:48 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: >> On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: >>> Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to better >>> understand what is condition causes the kernel to sometimes spew: >>> >>> Unexpec

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-05 Thread Will Deacon
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:14:51AM +0100, David Long wrote: > On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: > > Dave Long and I did some additional experimentation to better > > understand what is condition causes the kernel to sometimes spew: > > > > Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1 > > >

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-04 Thread David Long
On 05/01/15 21:44, William Cohen wrote: On 04/29/2015 06:23 AM, Will Deacon wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:58:21AM +0100, William Cohen wrote: Hi All, Hi Will, I have been experimenting with the patches for arm64 kprobes support. On occasion the kernel gets stuck in a loop printing outpu

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-05-01 Thread William Cohen
On 04/29/2015 06:23 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:58:21AM +0100, William Cohen wrote: >> Hi All, > > Hi Will, > >> I have been experimenting with the patches for arm64 kprobes support. >> On occasion the kernel gets stuck in a loop printing output: >> >> Unexpected kernel s

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-29 Thread Will Deacon
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:58:21AM +0100, William Cohen wrote: > Hi All, Hi Will, > I have been experimenting with the patches for arm64 kprobes support. > On occasion the kernel gets stuck in a loop printing output: > > Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1 > > This message by itself

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-28 Thread David Long
On 04/21/15 07:42, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2015/04/21 5:19), David Long wrote: >> From: "David A. Long" >> >> This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches, >> first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised >> by >> reviewers and also

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-27 Thread William Cohen
Hi All, I have been experimenting with the patches for arm64 kprobes support. On occasion the kernel gets stuck in a loop printing output: Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1 This message by itself is not that enlighten. I added the attached patch to get some additional information

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-24 Thread William Cohen
On 04/21/2015 07:42 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2015/04/21 5:19), David Long wrote: >> From: "David A. Long" >> >> This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches, >> first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised >> by >> reviewers and

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-21 Thread William Cohen
On 04/21/2015 07:42 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2015/04/21 5:19), David Long wrote: >> From: "David A. Long" >> >> This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches, >> first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised >> by >> reviewers and

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-21 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
(2015/04/21 5:19), David Long wrote: > From: "David A. Long" > > This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches, > first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised > by > reviewers and also fixes problems discovered during testing. > > Thi

[PATCH v6 0/6] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

2015-04-20 Thread David Long
From: "David A. Long" This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches, first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised by reviewers and also fixes problems discovered during testing. This patchset adds support for kernel probes(kprobes), ju