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Paul Gortmaker 8a39b05f08 powerpc: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto extable.h
These files were only including module.h for exception table
related functions.  We've now separated that content out into its
own file "extable.h" so now move over to that and avoid all the
extra header content in module.h that we don't really need to compile
these files.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2016-08-22 11:09:33 +10:00
Thiago Jung Bauermann 61ed9cfb1b powerpc/kprobes: Remove kretprobe_trampoline_holder.
Fixes the following testsuite failure:

  $ sudo ./perf test -v kallsyms
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                          :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 12489
  Using /proc/kcore for kernel object code
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /boot/vmlinux for symbols
  0xc00000000003d300: diff name v: .kretprobe_trampoline_holder k: kretprobe_trampoline
  Maps only in vmlinux:
   c00000000086ca38-c000000000879b6c 87ca38 [kernel].text.unlikely
   c000000000879b6c-c000000000bf0000 889b6c [kernel].meminit.text
   c000000000bf0000-c000000000c53264 c00000 [kernel].init.text
   c000000000c53264-d000000004250000 c63264 [kernel].exit.text
   d000000004250000-d000000004450000 0 [libcrc32c]
   d000000004450000-d000000004620000 0 [xfs]
   d000000004620000-d000000004680000 0 [autofs4]
   d000000004680000-d0000000046e0000 0 [x_tables]
   d0000000046e0000-d000000004780000 0 [ip_tables]
   d000000004780000-d0000000047e0000 0 [rng_core]
   d0000000047e0000-ffffffffffffffff 0 [pseries_rng]
  Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  Maps only in kallsyms:
   d000000000000000-f000000000000000 1000000000010000 [kernel.kallsyms]
   f000000000000000-ffffffffffffffff 3000000000010000 [kernel.kallsyms]
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!

The problem is that the kretprobe_trampoline symbol looks like this:

  $ eu-readelf -s /boot/vmlinux G kretprobe_trampoline
   2431: c000000001302368     24 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT       37 kretprobe_trampoline_holder
   2432: c00000000003d300      8 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT        1 .kretprobe_trampoline_holder
  97543: c00000000003d300      0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT        1 kretprobe_trampoline

Its type is NOTYPE, and its size is 0, and this is a problem because
symbol-elf.c:dso__load_sym skips function symbols that are not STT_FUNC
or STT_GNU_IFUNC (this is determined by elf_sym__is_function). Even
if the type is changed to STT_FUNC, when dso__load_sym calls
symbols__fixup_duplicate, the kretprobe_trampoline symbol is dropped in
favour of .kretprobe_trampoline_holder because the latter has non-zero
size (as determined by choose_best_symbol).

With this patch, all vmlinux symbols match /proc/kallsyms and the
testcase passes.

Commit c1c355ce14 ("x86/kprobes: Get rid of
kretprobe_trampoline_holder()") gets rid of kretprobe_trampoline_holder
altogether on x86. This commit does the same on powerpc. This change
introduces no regressions on the perf and ftracetest testsuite results.

Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-21 15:30:49 +10:00
Michael Ellerman f55d966536 powerpc: Define and use PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2/v1
We're approaching 20 locations where we need to check for ELF ABI v2.
That's fine, except the logic is a bit awkward, because we have to check
that _CALL_ELF is defined and then what its value is.

So check it once in asm/types.h and define PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 when ELF ABI
v2 is detected.

We also have a few places where what we're really trying to check is
that we are using the 64-bit v1 ABI, ie. function descriptors. So also
add a #define for that, which simplifies several checks.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-14 13:58:27 +10:00
Christoph Lameter 69111bac42 powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2->V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-11-03 12:12:32 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 2f0143c91d powerpc/kprobes: Fix jprobes on ABI v2 (LE)
In commit 721aeaa9 "Build little endian ppc64 kernel with ABIv2", we
missed some updates required in the kprobes code to make jprobes work
when the kernel is built with ABI v2.

Firstly update arch_deref_entry_point() to do the right thing. Now that
we have added ppc_global_function_entry() we can just always use that, it
will do the right thing for 32 & 64 bit and ABI v1 & v2.

Secondly we need to update the code that sets up the register state before
calling the jprobe handler. On ABI v1 we setup r2 to hold the TOC, on ABI
v2 we need to populate r12 with the function entry point address.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-24 14:05:55 +10:00
Anoop Thomas Mathew 23d6d3db66 doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
Signed-off-by: Anoop Thomas Mathew <atm@profoundis.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-10-14 15:46:39 +02:00
Suzuki K. Poulose 35fd219a26 powerpc: Move the single step enable code to a generic path
This patch moves the single step enable code used by kprobe to a generic
routine header so that, it can be re-used by other code, in this case,
uprobes. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ananth N Mavinakaynahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 16:55:09 +10:00
Suzuki K. Poulose 85f395c5b0 powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable External interrupts during single step
External/Decrement exceptions have lower priority than the Debug Exception.
So, we don't have to disable the External interrupts before a single step.
However, on BookE, Critical Input Exception(CE) has higher priority than a
Debug Exception. Hence we mask them.

Signed-off-by: 	Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc:		Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc:		Ananth N Mavinakaynahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc:		Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc:		linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 16:55:09 +10:00
Sasha Levin b67bfe0d42 hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    <+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
David Howells ae3a197e3d Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli db97bc7f99 powerpc/kprobes: Remove resume_execution() in kprobes
emulate_step() in kprobe_handler() would've already determined if the
probed instruction can be emulated. We single-step in hardware only if
the instruction couldn't be emulated. resume_execution() therefore is
superfluous -- all we need is to fix up the instruction pointer after
single-stepping.

Thanks to Paul Mackerras for catching this.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-06-02 17:50:37 +10:00
Dave Kleikamp 221c185d4e powerpc/476: Add isync after loading mmu and debug spr's
476 requires an isync after loading MMU and debug related SPR's.  Some of
these are in performance-critical paths and may need to be optimized, but
initially, we're playing it safe.

Signed-off-by: Torez Smith  <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-05 10:39:13 -04:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Dave Kleikamp 172ae2e7f8 powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers
powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers

From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Introduce new config options to simplify the ifdefs pertaining to the
advanced debug registers for booke and 40x processors:

CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS - boolean: true for dac-based processors
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS - number of IAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS - number of DAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS - number of DVC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE - DAC ranges supported

Beginning conservatively, since I only have the facilities to test 440
hardware.  I believe all 40x and booke platforms support at least 2 IAC
and 2 DAC registers.  For 440, 4 IAC and 2 DVC registers are enabled, as
well as the DAC ranges.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-02-17 14:03:16 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 57c44c5f6f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
  trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
  trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
  trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
  trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
  trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
  trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
  trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
  trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
  trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
  ...
2009-01-07 11:31:52 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu 1294156078 kprobes: add kprobe_insn_mutex and cleanup arch_remove_kprobe()
Add kprobe_insn_mutex for protecting kprobe_insn_pages hlist, and remove
kprobe_mutex from architecture dependent code.

This allows us to call arch_remove_kprobe() (and free_insn_slot) while
holding kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:20 -08:00
Frederik Schwarzer 025dfdafe7 trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-06 11:28:06 +01:00
Srinivasa D S ef53d9c5e4 kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed locking
Currently list of kretprobe instances are stored in kretprobe object (as
used_instances,free_instances) and in kretprobe hash table.  We have one
global kretprobe lock to serialise the access to these lists.  This causes
only one kretprobe handler to execute at a time.  Hence affects system
performance, particularly on SMP systems and when return probe is set on
lot of functions (like on all systemcalls).

Solution proposed here gives fine-grain locks that performs better on SMP
system compared to present kretprobe implementation.

Solution:

 1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances
    present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table.  We will have
    two locks, one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another
    lock for kretporbe object.

 2) We hold lock present in kretprobe object while we modify kretprobe
    instance in kretprobe object and we hold per-hash-list lock while
    modifying kretprobe instances present in that hash list.  To prevent
    deadlock, we never grab a per-hash-list lock while holding a kretprobe
    lock.

 3) We can remove used_instances from struct kretprobe, as we can
    track used instances of kretprobe instances using kretprobe hash
    table.

Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8") on a 8-way ppc64 system
with return probes set on all systemcalls looks like this.

cacheline              non-cacheline             Un-patched kernel
aligned patch 	       aligned patch
===============================================================================
real    9m46.784s       9m54.412s                  10m2.450s
user    40m5.715s       40m7.142s                  40m4.273s
sys     2m57.754s       2m58.583s                  3m17.430s
===========================================================

Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8) on the same system, when
kernel is not probed.
=========================
real    9m26.389s
user    40m8.775s
sys     2m7.283s
=========================

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
Kumar Gala f82796214a powerpc/booke: Add kprobes support for booke style processors
This patch is based on work done by Madhvesh. R. Sulibhavi back in
March 2007.

We refactor some of the single step handling since it differs between
"classic" and "booke" powerpc cores.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-06-26 03:35:46 -05:00
Kumar Gala b76e59d1fb powerpc/kprobes: Some minor fixes
* Mark __flush_icache_range as a function that can't be probed since its
  used by the kprobe code.

* Fix an issue with single stepping and async exceptions.  We need to
  ensure that we dont get an async exception (external, decrementer, etc)
  while we are attempting to single step the probe point.

  Added a check to ensure we only handle a single step if its really
  intended for the instruction in question.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-06-26 03:35:33 -05:00
Michael Ellerman 80d267f9ae [POWERPC] Remove unnecessary cast in arch_deref_entry_point()
func_descr_t->entry is already an unsigned long.  Mea culpa.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-23 15:27:31 +10:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 66200ea222 [POWERPC] Kill sparse warnings in kprobes
Fix sparse warnings in powerpc kprobes:

  CHECK   arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c:277:6: warning: symbol 'kretprobe_trampoline_holder' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c:287:15: warning: symbol 'trampoline_probe_handler' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c:525:16: warning: symbol 'jprobe_return_end' was not declared. Should it be static?

Fix along the same lines as http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/642

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-02-20 13:33:37 +11:00
Masami Hiramatsu f438d914b2 kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist
Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users
from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be
inserted but kretprobes can not.

This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and
registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to
prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
Michael Ellerman 3d7e33825d jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users
I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use.  This guy I know once
wrote code like this:

struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };

And then his kernel exploded. Oops.

This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.

We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds df6d3916f3 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (77 commits)
  [POWERPC] Abolish powerpc_flash_init()
  [POWERPC] Early serial debug support for PPC44x
  [POWERPC] Support for the Ebony 440GP reference board in arch/powerpc
  [POWERPC] Add device tree for Ebony
  [POWERPC] Add powerpc/platforms/44x, disable platforms/4xx for now
  [POWERPC] MPIC U3/U4 MSI backend
  [POWERPC] MPIC MSI allocator
  [POWERPC] Enable MSI mappings for MPIC
  [POWERPC] Tell Phyp we support MSI
  [POWERPC] RTAS MSI implementation
  [POWERPC] PowerPC MSI infrastructure
  [POWERPC] Rip out the existing powerpc msi stubs
  [POWERPC] Remove use of 4level-fixup.h for ppc32
  [POWERPC] Add powerpc PCI-E reset API implementation
  [POWERPC] Holly bootwrapper
  [POWERPC] Holly DTS
  [POWERPC] Holly defconfig
  [POWERPC] Add support for 750CL Holly board
  [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PCI setup
  [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PHY types
  ...

Fixed conflict in include/asm-powerpc/kdebug.h manually

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:50:19 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli bf8f6e5b3e Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs
This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off

o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
  not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but
  not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case.
o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones
  registered in the intervening period) will be enabled
o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally
  enabled or not.
o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there
  also update the doc to make it current.

We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling
feature provided by this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels]
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390]
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 4c4308cb93 kprobes: kretprobes simplifications
- consolidate duplicate code in all arch_prepare_kretprobe instances
   into common code
 - replace various odd helpers that use hlist_for_each_entry to get
   the first elemenet of a list with either a hlist_for_each_entry_save
   or an opencoded access to the first element in the caller
 - inline add_rp_inst into it's only remaining caller
 - use kretprobe_inst_table_head instead of opencoding it

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 0f95b7fc83 Kprobes: print details of kretprobe on assertion failure
In certain cases like when the real return address can't be found or when
the number of tracked calls to a kretprobed function is less than the
number of returns, we may not be able to find the correct return address
after processing a kretprobe.  Currently we just do a BUG_ON, but no
information is provided about the actual failing kretprobe.

Print out details of the kretprobe before calling BUG().

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 1eeb66a1bb move die notifier handling to common code
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)

arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 9f90b997de [POWERPC] Minor fault path optimization
Call the kprobes pagefault handler directly instead of going through
the complex notifier chain.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-02 20:57:39 +10:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli e6349a958b [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>
2007-04-24 21:31:58 +10:00
Kumar Gala 8209003547 [POWERPC] Added kprobes support to ppc32
Added kprobes to ppc32 platforms that have use single_step_exception.  This
excludes 4xx and anything Book-E since their debug mechanisms for single stepping
are completely different.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-02-06 22:55:19 -06:00
Masami Hiramatsu b4c6c34a53 [PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its
instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some
processes might be preempted on the buffer.  The freeze_processes() and
thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer.
There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag.  If
those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the
buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing.

However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time.  So, this
patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot.  It also
introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency.

The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released
immediately.  But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are
marked as garbages.  collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release
"dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if
there are no unused slots.

Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
bibo,mao 99219a3fbc [PATCH] kretprobe spinlock deadlock patch
kprobe_flush_task() possibly calls kfree function during holding
kretprobe_lock spinlock, if kfree function is probed by kretprobe that will
incur spinlock deadlock.  This patch moves kfree function out scope of
kretprobe_lock.

Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
bibo,mao 62c27be0dd [PATCH] kprobe whitespace cleanup
Whitespace is used to indent, this patch cleans up these sentences by
kernel coding style.

Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 83db3dde26 [POWERPC] kprobes: Fix possible system crash during out-of-line single-stepping
- On archs that have no-exec support, we vmalloc() a executable scratch
area of PAGE_SIZE and divide it up into an array of slots of maximum
instruction size for that arch
- On a kprobe registration, the original instruction is copied to the
first available free slot, so if multiple kprobes are registered, chances
are, they get contiguous slots
- On POWER4, due to not having coherent icaches, we could hit a situation
where a probe that is registered on one processor, is hit immediately on
another. This second processor could have fetched the stream of text from
the out-of-line single-stepping area *before* the probe registration
completed, possibly due to an earlier (and a different) kprobe hit and
hence would see stale data at the slot.

Executing such an arbitrary instruction lead to a problem as reported
in LTC bugzilla 23555.

The correct solution is to call flush_icache_range() as soon as the
instruction is copied for out-of-line single-stepping, so the correct
instruction is seen on all processors.

Thanks to Will Schmidt who tracked this down.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-17 16:41:10 +10:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 0ccde0a290 [PATCH] powerpc/kprobes: fix singlestep out-of-line
We currently single-step inline if the instruction on which a kprobe is
inserted is a trap variant.

- variants (such as tdnei, used by BUG()) typically evaluate a condition
  and cause a trap only if the condition is satisfied.
- kprobes uses the unconditional "trap" (0x7fe00008) and single-stepping
  again on this instruction, resulting in another trap without
  evaluating the condition is obviously incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-03 23:06:41 +10:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi 46dbe2f4ef [PATCH] Switch Kprobes inline functions to __kprobes for ppc64
Andrew Morton pointed out that compiler might not inline the functions
marked for inline in kprobes.  There-by allowing the insertion of probes
on these kprobes routines, which might cause recursion.

This patch removes all such inline and adds them to kprobes section
there by disallowing probes on all such routines.  Some of the routines
can even still be inlined, since these routines gets executed after the
kprobes had done necessay setup for reentrancy.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19 09:13:53 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi 50e21f2b28 [PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:04 -08:00
bibo,mao 2326c77017 [PATCH] kprobe handler: discard user space trap
Currently kprobe handler traps only happen in kernel space, so function
kprobe_exceptions_notify should skip traps which happen in user space.
This patch modifies this, and it is based on 2.6.16-rc4.

Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:04 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 7a7d1cf954 [PATCH] sem2mutex: kprobes
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Jon Mason 2ef9481e66 [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of files
This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree.  I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-10 16:53:51 +11:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S eb3a72921c [PATCH] kprobes: fix race in recovery of reentrant probe
There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit
on some different cpu.  In this case probe handlers can't find a matching
probe instance related to break address.  In this case we need to read the
original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3
instruction and recover safely.

Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in
case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race.

Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:12 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 0498b63504 [PATCH] kprobes: fix build breakage
The following patch (against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3) fixes a kprobes build break
due to changes introduced in the kprobe locking in 2.6.15-rc5-mm3.  In
addition, the patch reverts back the open-coding of kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy e597c2984c [PATCH] kprobes: arch_remove_kprobe
Currently arch_remove_kprobes() is only implemented/required for x86_64 and
powerpc.  All other architecture like IA64, i386 and sparc64 implementes a
dummy function which is being called from arch independent kprobes.c file.

This patch removes the dummy functions and replaces it with
#define arch_remove_kprobe(p, s)	do { } while(0)

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S f709b12234 [PATCH] kprobes-changed-from-using-spinlock-to-mutex fix
Based on some feedback from Oleg Nesterov, I have made few changes to
previously posted patch.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy 49a2a1b83b [PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex
Since Kprobes runtime exception handlers is now lock free as this code path is
now using RCU to walk through the list, there is no need for the
register/unregister{_kprobe} to use spin_{lock/unlock}_isr{save/restore}.  The
serialization during registration/unregistration is now possible using just a
mutex.

In the above process, this patch also fixes a minor memory leak for x86_64 and
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S bf8d5c52c3 [PATCH] kprobes: increment kprobe missed count for multiprobes
When multiple probes are registered at the same address and if due to some
recursion (probe getting triggered within a probe handler), we skip calling
pre_handlers and just increment nmissed field.

The below patch make sure it walks the list for multiple probes case.
Without the below patch we get incorrect results of nmissed count for
multiple probe case.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 08:57:45 -08:00
Paul Mackerras 7568cb4ef6 powerpc: Move most remaining ppc64 files over to arch/powerpc
Also deletes files in arch/ppc64 that are no longer used now that
we don't compile with ARCH=ppc64 any more.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-14 17:30:17 +11:00