Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] uprobes: add arch write opcode hook

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Oct 29 2013 - 15:58:12 EST


On 10/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Yes, yes, sorry for confusion. What I actually tried to suggest is
> something like the trivial patch below.
>
> Then arm can do:
>
> uprobe_opcode_t arch_uprobe_swbp_insn(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe)
> {
> return __opcode_to_mem_arm(auprobe->bpinsn);
> }
>
> No?
>
> > I notice there don't seem to be any alternative set_swbp functions
> > in the (rc6) kernel tree
>
> Yes... I think we should simply make it "static". And set_orig_insn()
> too.

Or. arm can actually reimplement set_swbp(). This doesn't mean the
duplication of write_opcode() code, we can simply export this helper.

Either way is imho better than this patch. Unless I missed something.

Oleg.

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