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authorJon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>2011-04-08 10:32:53 -0400
committerNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>2011-04-28 23:40:56 -0400
commitec58d7f2373cec47f30b773d40a89f18bf6fc489 (patch)
tree3c196788348435ea7ac6c1dfda58d9789d5c6e83 /arch/arm/plat-samsung
parentba48d40713ae5afe758dd5525a0f8740cce71d22 (diff)
ARM: kprobes: Reject probing of STREX and LDREX instructions
The emulation code for STREX and LDREX instructions is faulty, however, rather than attempting to fix this we reject probes of these instructions. We do this because they can never succeed in gaining exclusive access as the exception framework clears the exclusivity monitor when a probes breakpoint is hit. (This is a general problem when probing all instructions executing between a LDREX and its corresponding STREX and can lead to infinite retry loops.) Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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