Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-10 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Tom Musta wrote: > > > Isn't that code occasionally used with uprobes too nowadays ? > > > > Yes. I believe so. > > I'm going to back-pedal a little. I reread code and can connect > single step code to kprobes but not necessarily to uprobes. So > I am n

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-09 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Tom, On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:44:54 -0500 Tom Musta wrote: > > > Looks like the patch has been mangled by the mailer ... it's in HTML to > > begin with :-) > > Frustrating. I did use a plain text option on the mail client and did a > test send to a few accounts before posting to the mailing lis

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Musta
> > Isn't that code occasionally used with uprobes too nowadays ? > > Yes. I believe so. I'm going to back-pedal a little. I reread code and can connect single step code to kprobes but not necessarily to uprobes. So I am not sure that this code is used with uprobes.

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Musta
> Looks like the patch has been mangled by the mailer ... it's in HTML to > begin with :-) Frustrating. I did use a plain text option on the mail client and did a test send to a few accounts before posting to the mailing list. The patch was verified by checkpatch.pl before it got mangled. I w

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 08:35 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Also, you need to indent your code correctly according to > Documentation/CodingStyle. Looks like the patch has been mangled by the mailer ... it's in HTML to begin with :-) Tom, you need to find a mailer setup that works for sending p

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 08:35 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:13:00AM -0500, Tom Musta wrote: > > To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > > Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly > > From: Tom Musta > > > > Po

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-08 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:13:00AM -0500, Tom Musta wrote: > To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly > From: Tom Musta > > PowerISA uses instruction bit 21 to indicate that the overflow (OV) bit > of the XER is

[PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly

2013-09-08 Thread Tom Musta
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: OE=1 Form Instructions Not Decoded Correctly From: Tom Musta PowerISA uses instruction bit 21 to indicate that the overflow (OV) bit of the XER is to be set, as well as its corresponding sticky bit (SO). This patch addresses two defects