Re: [PATCH] MIPS Kprobes: Support branch instructions probing

[Maneesh Soni <manesoni@cisco.com>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:07:14PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:28:51AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> 
> > Where is the handling for:
> > 
> >     case cop1_op:
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
> >     case lwc2_op: /* This is bbit0 on Octeon */
> >     case ldc2_op: /* This is bbit032 on Octeon */
> >     case swc2_op: /* This is bbit1 on Octeon */
> >     case sdc2_op: /* This is bbit132 on Octeon */
> > #endif
> > 
> > These are all defined in insn_has_delayslot() but not here.
> 
> Which is a wonderful demonstration for why duplicating such a large
> function from branch.c was a baaad thing to do.
> 
> Maneesh, can you refactor the code to share everything that was copied
> from __compute_return_epc() can be shared with kprobes?  Idealy make
> everything a two part series, first one patch to refactor branch.c and
> the 2nd patch to deal with kprobes.
> 

Sure.. the branch likely instructions are not make it look good but
still do it in the next version.

Thanks for the comments.

Regards,
Maneesh