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MIPS Kprobes: Support branch instructions probing
This patch provides support for kprobes on branch instructions. The branch instruction at the probed address is actually emulated and not executed out-of-line like other normal instructions. Instead the delay-slot instruction is copied and single stepped out of line. At the time of probe hit, the original branch instruction is evaluated and the target cp0_epc is computed similar to compute_retrun_epc(). It is also checked if the delay slot instruction can be skipped, which is true if there is a NOP in delay slot or branch is taken in case of branch likely instructions. Once the delay slot instruction is single stepped the normal execution resume with the cp0_epc updated the earlier computed cp0_epc as per the branch instructions. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <manesoni@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2914/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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