[POWERPC] kprobes: Eliminate sstep exception if instruction can be emulated
For cases when probes are placed on instructions that can be emulated,
don't take the single-step exception.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
index 3a5dd49..f850ca7 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@
struct arch_specific_insn {
/* copy of original instruction */
kprobe_opcode_t *insn;
+ /*
+ * Set in kprobes code, initially to 0. If the instruction can be
+ * eumulated, this is set to 1, if not, to -1.
+ */
+ int boostable;
};
struct prev_kprobe {
