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When a MOPS main or epilogue instruction is being executed, the task may get scheduled on a different CPU and restart execution from the prologue instruction. If the main or epilogue instruction is being single stepped then it makes sense to finish the step and take the step exception before starting to execute the next (prologue) instruction. So fast-forward the single step state machine when taking a MOPS exception. This means that if a main or epilogue instruction is single stepped with ptrace, the debugger will sometimes observe the PC moving back to the prologue instruction. (As already mentioned, this should be rare as it only happens when the task is scheduled to another CPU during the step.) This also ensures that perf breakpoints count prologue instructions consistently (i.e. every time they are executed), rather than skipping them when there also happens to be a breakpoint on a main or epilogue instruction. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509142235.3284028-9-kristina.martsenko@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.