linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX PATCH V2 0/3] kprobes/arm: Improve kprobes implementation on arm

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Message-ID: <1487779129.18810.10.camel@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:58:49 +0000
From:   "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        "David A . Long" <dave.long@...aro.org>,
        Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX PATCH V2 0/3] kprobes/arm: Improve kprobes
 implementation on arm

On Sat, 2017-02-18 at 06:43 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:01:10 +0000
> "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org> wrote:
[...]
> > Meantime
> > I'll investigate the kprobes test failures I see (which actually looks
> > like cache/TLB issues and not test code problems after all).
> 
> OK, btw, I couldn't reproduce the kprobes test failure with
> CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y on qemu...

That's because it's a problem with caches which qemu doesn't emulate.
I worked out the cause and posted a patch...
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-February/489517.html

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Tixy