Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:08:26 +0530
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: kprobes breaks BUG() handling
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:19:37PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was running some tests and noticed BUG() handling wasnt working as
> expected. The kprobes code has some code to check for breakpoint
> removal races and only checks for one opcode. It turns out there are
> many forms of the breakpoint instruction, comparing against one is not
> good enough.

Ah yes! I see that BUG() uses twi. I will try and send out a patch for
this soon.

Thanks,
Ananth
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