Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2015-06-29 Thread Steve Capper
On 15 June 2015 at 20:07, David Long wrote: > From: Sandeepa Prabhu > > Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped > from different memory location, e.g.: those instructions > that uses PC-relative addressing. In simulation, the behaviour > of the instruction is implemented

Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2015-06-29 Thread Steve Capper
On 15 June 2015 at 20:07, David Long dave.l...@linaro.org wrote: From: Sandeepa Prabhu sandeepa.pra...@linaro.org Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped from different memory location, e.g.: those instructions that uses PC-relative addressing. In simulation, the

[PATCH v7 4/7] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2015-06-15 Thread David Long
From: Sandeepa Prabhu Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped from different memory location, e.g.: those instructions that uses PC-relative addressing. In simulation, the behaviour of the instruction is implemented using a copy of pt_regs. Following instruction

[PATCH v7 4/7] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2015-06-15 Thread David Long
From: Sandeepa Prabhu sandeepa.pra...@linaro.org Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped from different memory location, e.g.: those instructions that uses PC-relative addressing. In simulation, the behaviour of the instruction is implemented using a copy of pt_regs.