linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 05/10] arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support

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Message-ID: <574E6F7D.1040902@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2016 01:15:41 -0400
From:	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
To:	Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@....com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@...il.com>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
	Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	John Blackwood <john.blackwood@...r.com>,
	Feng Kan <fkan@....com>, Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@...il.com>,
	Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>,
	Vladimir Murzin <Vladimir.Murzin@....com>,
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	Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
	Balamurugan Shanmugam <bshanmugam@....com>, nd@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 05/10] arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support

On 05/17/2016 05:10 AM, Huang Shijie wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:53:00PM -0400, David Long wrote:
>> From: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@...il.com>
>> +
>> +static bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_steppable(u32 insn)
>
> Could we add more comment for this function? In the comment, we can tell
> that which type of instructions are steppable, which are not.
>
>> +{
>> +	if (aarch64_get_insn_class(insn) == AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS) {
>> +		if (aarch64_insn_is_branch(insn) ||
>> +		    aarch64_insn_is_msr_imm(insn) ||
>> +		    aarch64_insn_is_msr_reg(insn) ||
>> +		    aarch64_insn_is_exception(insn))
>> +			return false;
>> +
>> +		if (aarch64_insn_is_mrs(insn))
>> +			return aarch64_insn_extract_system_reg(insn)
>> +			     != AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DAIF;
>> +
>> +		if (aarch64_insn_is_hint(insn))
>> +			return aarch64_insn_is_nop(insn);
>> +
>> +		return true;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	if (aarch64_insn_uses_literal(insn) ||
>> +	    aarch64_insn_is_exclusive(insn))
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	return true;
>
> Thanks
> Huang Shijie
>

I did add a comment to this for the next version of the patch.

-dl