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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/4] uprobes/powerpc: Make use of generic routines to enable single step
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 08:10:13PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 12/18, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 09:02:41PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > - uprobe_restore_context_sstep(&utask->autask);
> > > > + uprobe_restore_context_sstep(&utask->autask, regs);
> > >
> > > I am not sure ppc needs this, but note that x86 does a bit more.
> > >
> > > Not only we need to restore the "single-step" state, we need to
> > > send SIGTRAP if it was not set by us. The same for _skip_sstep.
> >
> > Do you mean restoring the TF equivalent on powerpc to what it was before?
> >
> > If so, powerpc has always been unique in this aspect -- the single-step
> > exception handler *always* resets the sstep bit in MSR. Any user needing
> > to continue single-stepping has to explicitly set it again.
>
> I meant another thing.
>
> Suppose that, say, gdb tries to single-step over the probed insn.
> In this case we need to send SIGTRAP after xol/emulate. Please look at
> send_sig(SIGTRAP) in arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c:arch_uprobe_post_xol()
> and arch_uprobe_skip_sstep().

Agreed. Thanks for the clarification Oleg.

Ananth



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