Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:36:01 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support |
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 06:03:46PM +0100, David Long wrote: > On 08/11/15 12:56, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 01:52:37AM +0100, David Long wrote: > >> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org> > >> > >> This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches, > >> first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns raised by > >> reviewers and also fixes problems discovered during testing. > >> > >> This patchset adds support for kernel probes(kprobes), jump probes(jprobes) > >> and return probes(kretprobes) support for ARM64. > >> > >> The kprobes mechanism makes use of software breakpoint and single stepping > >> support available in the ARM v8 kernel. > >> > >> This patch depends on: > >> [PATCH 1/2] Move the pt_regs_offset struct definition from arch to common include file > >> [PATCH 2/2] Consolidate redundant register/stack access code > > > > Are these two queued somewhere? This series doesn't even build without > > them. > > I posted the last revision of that on July 27. I don't know if they're > "queued" somewhere. They do affect multiple architectures so I'm not > certain where they would get queued. They also live in a branch in my > own Linaro repo.
Well they're not in linux-next, so I guess they're not currently destined for mainline :(
> Was there a better way for me to deal with this dependency? I was > reluctant to make this into one patch set as the other patch really does > stand alone as a useful fix.
I agree (well, it's a cleanup not a fix). Perhaps it's worth reposting them with akpm also on Cc, as he sometimes picks up tree-wide patches like that.
Will
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