>>>>>> On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:51:45 -0700, Rusty Lynch
><[email protected]> said:
>
> Rusty> The following patch is for the 2.6.12-rc5-mm1 + my previous
> Rusty> "Kprobes ia64 cleanup" patch that fixes a bug where a kprobe
still
> Rusty> fires when the instruction is predicated off. So given the
p6=0,
> Rusty> and we have an instruction like:
>
> Rusty> (p6) move loc1=0
>
> Rusty> we should not be triggering the kprobe. This is handled by
> Rusty> carrying over the qp section of the original instruction into
> Rusty> the break instruction.
>
>What about:
>
> (p6) cmp.eq.unc p9,p10=rX,rY
>
>would the code handle that right? Similary, you may want to check for
>the correct handling of instructions that cannot be predicated (such
>as "cover").
>
> --david
Thanks, I need to look into this one. Let me update my test to cover
both of these cases and then take another look at our logic.
--rusty
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