On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 00:35 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Hi Balbir,
>
> On 2017/06/06 02:29PM, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > arch_arm/disarm_probe use direct assignment for copying
> > instructions, replace them with patch_instruction
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> > index fc43435..b49f8f0 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> > @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(arch_prepare_kprobe);
> >
> > void arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
> > {
> > - *p->addr = BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION;
> > + patch_instruction(p->addr, BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION);
> > flush_icache_range((unsigned long) p->addr,
> > (unsigned long) p->addr + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
>
> Do we still need flush_icache_range() after patch_instruction()?
>
Good catch! No, we don't
Balbir Singh.
