From: David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@linaro.org>,
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@linaro.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:16:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <546ED8C6.8050003@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141118145228.GN18842@arm.com>
On 11/18/14 09:52, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 06:32:55AM +0000, David Long wrote:
>> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
>>
>> Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature for arm64.
>
> [...]
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
>> index d3e782a..24cc048 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
>> @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ struct pt_regs {
>> u64 syscallno;
>> };
>>
>> +#define MAX_REG_OFFSET (offsetof(struct pt_regs, orig_x0))
>
> Is orig_x0 actually useful to this API? If not, we could instead operate on
> the user_pt_regs structure, and define the maximum offset in terms of sizeof
> that.
>
I agree. I don't think the orig_x0 field should be exposed through this
API.
>> +#define ARM_cpsr pstate
>> +#define ARM_pc pc
>> +#define ARM_sp sp
>> +#define ARM_lr regs[30]
>> +#define ARM_fp regs[29]
>> +#define ARM_x28 regs[28]
>> +#define ARM_x27 regs[27]
>
> [...]
>
> I don't think we need these #defines.
>
> Will
These are used in the REG_OFFSET_NAME macro. This is all borrowed from
arch/arm/ code. I didn't see a need to redesign it.
-dl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-21 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 6:32 [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support David Long
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support David Long
2014-11-18 13:28 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2014-11-21 4:28 ` David Long
2014-11-18 14:38 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 14:39 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 14:56 ` Will Deacon
2014-11-19 11:21 ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2014-11-19 11:25 ` Will Deacon
2014-11-19 14:55 ` David Long
2014-11-20 5:10 ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2014-11-26 6:46 ` David Long
2014-11-26 10:09 ` Will Deacon
2014-12-22 10:10 ` Pratyush Anand
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] arm64: Kprobes instruction simulation support David Long
2014-11-18 14:43 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] arm64: Add kernel return probes support(kretprobes) David Long
2014-11-18 14:50 ` William Cohen
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module David Long
2014-11-18 6:32 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature David Long
2014-11-18 14:52 ` Will Deacon
2014-11-20 7:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-21 6:16 ` David Long [this message]
2014-11-20 15:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support Steve Capper
2014-11-26 8:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-26 10:03 ` Steve Capper
2014-11-26 17:46 ` David Long
2014-11-26 18:59 ` Steve Capper
2014-11-27 6:07 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-28 16:01 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-01 9:37 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-02 19:27 ` William Cohen
2014-12-02 20:00 ` William Cohen
2014-12-03 3:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-03 14:54 ` William Cohen
2014-12-03 22:54 ` David Long
2014-12-04 0:02 ` David Long
2014-12-04 1:16 ` William Cohen
2014-12-04 2:48 ` David Long
2014-12-04 10:21 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-04 10:43 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-04 11:29 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-04 11:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-09 13:33 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-09 14:27 ` David Long
2014-12-10 16:38 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-12 22:42 ` David Long
2014-12-12 23:10 ` Steve Capper
2014-12-15 5:58 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-15 6:29 ` David Long
2014-12-05 5:08 ` William Cohen
2014-11-27 5:13 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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