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From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3.2 2/9] uprobes: handle breakpoint and signal step exception.
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:32:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120118090232.GE15447@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120118083906.GA4697@bandura.brq.redhat.com>

> Srikar,
> 
>   Can we use existing SET_IP() instead of set_instruction_pointer() ?
> 

Oleg had already commented about this in one his uprobes reviews.

The GET_IP/SET_IP available in include/asm-generic/ptrace.h doesnt work
on all archs. Atleast it doesnt work on powerpc when I tried it.

Also most archs define instruction_pointer(). So I thought (rather Peter
Zijlstra suggested the name set_instruction_pointer())
set_instruction_pointer was a better bet than SET_IP. I 

Also I dont see any usage for SET_IP/GET_IP.

May be we should have something like this in
include/asm-generic/ptrace.h

#ifdef instruction_pointer
#define GET_IP(regs)		(instruction_pointer(regs))

#define set_instruction_pointer(regs, val) (instruction_pointer(regs) = (val))

#define SET_IP(regs, val)	(set_instruction_pointer(regs,val))

#endif

or should we do away with GET_IP/SET_IP esp since there are no many
users?

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-18  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-10 11:48 [PATCH v9 3.2 0/9] Uprobes patchset with perf probe support Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 1/9] uprobes: Install and remove breakpoints Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-25 14:39   ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-25 16:31     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-25 15:13   ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-25 15:32     ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-26 14:14       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-26 18:28         ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-30  9:51           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-26 13:38     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-26 13:45   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 2/9] uprobes: handle breakpoint and signal step exception Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-18  8:39   ` Anton Arapov
2012-01-18  9:02     ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2012-01-18 10:18       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-18 10:47         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-18 11:01           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-20 22:57             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-25  8:12               ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 3/9] uprobes: slot allocation Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 4/9] uprobes: counter to optimize probe hits Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 5/9] tracing: modify is_delete, is_return from ints to bool Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 6/9] tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 7/9] tracing: uprobes trace_event interface Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-16 13:11   ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 14:45     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-16 15:33       ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 16:41         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17  9:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 10:22       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17 10:59         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 11:03           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17 11:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 11:57           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17 12:23             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 12:27               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 12:11         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 12:21         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-18 10:07           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 8/9] perf: rename target_module to target Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-16  8:34 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 0/9] Uprobes patchset with perf probe support Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 15:17   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17  9:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-25 14:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 11:10         ` Ingo Molnar

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