From: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:22:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ARM: kprobes: Use conditional breakpoints for ARM probes
X-Git-Tag: v3.1-rc1~258^2^2~2^2~59
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b26945597d5eff5d428a268c9d109338fce801e;p=pandora-kernel.git

ARM: kprobes: Use conditional breakpoints for ARM probes

Now we no longer trigger probes on conditional instructions when the
condition is false, we can make use of conditional instructions as
breakpoints in ARM code to avoid taking unnecessary exceptions.

Note, we can't rely on not getting an exception when the condition check
fails, as that is Implementation Defined on newer ARM architectures. We
therefore still need to perform manual condition checks as well.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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