Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:27:37 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix kprobes handling of simultaneous probe hit/unregister | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Date: 31 Aug 2005 14:53:37 -0700
> This bug doesn't exist on ppc64 and ia64, where a breakpoint > instruction leaves the IP pointing to the beginning of the instruction. > I don't know about sparc64. (Dave, could you please advise?)
On sparc64 instructions are all 32-bit, 4-byte aligned, and a breakpoint instruction leaves the PC pointing at the beginning of that breakpoint instruction.
So I think sparc64 should be OK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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