Re: [RFC] kprobes with thumb2 conditional code

2011-03-18 Thread Dave Martin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Tixy wrote: >> > Hello All >> > >> > I'm about to start work on getting kprobes working with thumb2. >> > >> > One of the issues I have is that when probes are pl

Re: [RFC] kprobes with thumb2 conditional code

2011-03-17 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Tixy wrote: > > Hello All > > > > I'm about to start work on getting kprobes working with thumb2. > > > > One of the issues I have is that when probes are placed onto > > conditionally executed instructions in a IT block,

Re: [RFC] kprobes with thumb2 conditional code

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Martin
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Tixy wrote: > Hello All > > I'm about to start work on getting kprobes working with thumb2. > > One of the issues I have is that when probes are placed onto > conditionally executed instructions in a IT block, they may not fire if > the condition is not met. This i

[RFC] kprobes with thumb2 conditional code

2011-03-11 Thread Tixy
Hello All I'm about to start work on getting kprobes working with thumb2. One of the issues I have is that when probes are placed onto conditionally executed instructions in a IT block, they may not fire if the condition is not met. This is because on ARM we use invalid instructions for breakpoin