commit 239aeba764 ("perf powerpc: Fix kprobe and kretprobe handling with
kallsyms on ppc64le") changed how we use the offset field in struct kprobe on
ABIv2. perf now offsets from the global entry point if an offset is specified
and otherwise chooses the local entry point.
Fix the same in kernel for kprobe API users. We do this by extending
kprobe_lookup_name() to accept an additional parameter to indicate the offset
specified with the kprobe registration. If offset is 0, we return the local
function entry and return the global entry point otherwise.
With:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# echo "p _do_fork" >> kprobe_events
# echo "p _do_fork+0x10" >> kprobe_events
before this patch:
# cat ../kprobes/list
c0000000000d0748 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
c0000000000d0758 k _do_fork+0x18 [DISABLED]
c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
and after:
# cat ../kprobes/list
c0000000000d04c8 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
c0000000000d04d0 k _do_fork+0x10 [DISABLED]
c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The macro is now pretty long and ugly on powerpc. In the light of further
changes needed here, convert it to a __weak variant to be over-ridden with a
nicer looking function.
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Kprobe placed on the kretprobe_trampoline() during boot time can be
optimized, since the instruction at probe point is a 'nop'.
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Current infrastructure of kprobe uses the unconditional trap instruction
to probe a running kernel. Optprobe allows kprobe to replace the trap
with a branch instruction to a detour buffer. Detour buffer contains
instructions to create an in memory pt_regs. Detour buffer also has a
call to optimized_callback() which in turn call the pre_handler(). After
the execution of the pre-handler, a call is made for instruction
emulation. The NIP is determined in advanced through dummy instruction
emulation and a branch instruction is created to the NIP at the end of
the trampoline.
To address the limitation of branch instruction in POWER architecture,
detour buffer slot is allocated from a reserved area. For the time
being, 64KB is reserved in memory for this purpose.
Instructions which can be emulated using analyse_instr() are the
candidates for optimization. Before optimization ensure that the address
range between the detour buffer allocated and the instruction being
probed is within +/- 32MB.
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Naveen N. Rao