Re: [PATCH v10 6/9] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2016-03-03 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 03/03/16 15:14, David Long wrote: > On 03/03/2016 03:01 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:02:43 -0500 >> David Long wrote: >> >>> On 03/01/2016 01:04 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On 01/03/16 02:57, David Long wrote: > From: Sandeepa Prabhu > > Kprobes needs simulatio

Re: [PATCH v10 6/9] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2016-03-03 Thread David Long
On 03/03/2016 03:01 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:02:43 -0500 David Long wrote: On 03/01/2016 01:04 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On 01/03/16 02:57, David Long wrote: From: Sandeepa Prabhu Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped from different memory locat

Re: [PATCH v10 6/9] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2016-03-03 Thread Marc Zyngier
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:02:43 -0500 David Long wrote: > On 03/01/2016 01:04 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > On 01/03/16 02:57, David Long wrote: > >> From: Sandeepa Prabhu > >> > >> Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped > >> from different memory location, e.g.: those instruc

Re: [PATCH v10 6/9] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2016-03-02 Thread David Long
On 03/01/2016 01:04 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On 01/03/16 02:57, 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

Re: [PATCH v10 6/9] arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

2016-03-01 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 01/03/16 02:57, 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 using a