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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 16:59:09 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To: Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 4/8] ARM64: Add instruction_pointer_set function
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:21:20PM +0000, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> instruction_pointer_set is needed for uprobe implementation. Hence
> define it for ARM64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
> index 24cc048ac3e7..29d9bf5e3635 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,12 @@ static inline int valid_user_regs(struct user_pt_regs *regs)
> #define instruction_pointer(regs) ((regs)->pc)
> #define stack_pointer(regs) ((regs)->sp)
>
> +static inline void instruction_pointer_set(struct pt_regs *regs,
> + unsigned long val)
> +{
> + instruction_pointer(regs) = val;
> +}
Do you think we could make use of the asm-generic ptrace header to get
this for free? afaict, we just need to implement GET_USP and possibly
GET_FP for the compat case (although it may well be that we still handle
the compat case entirely separately).
Will
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