Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying limitations
Some architectures (i.e.: sparc64 and arm64) make reasonable partial stack duplication for jprobes problematic. Document this. Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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or in registers. The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the
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handler's prototype matches that of the probed function.
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Note that in some architectures (e.g.: arm64 and sparc64) the stack
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copy is not done, as the actual location of stacked parameters may be
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outside of a reasonable MAX_STACK_SIZE value and because that location
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cannot be determined by the jprobes code. In this case the jprobes
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user must be careful to make certain the calling signature of the
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function does not cause parameters to be passed on the stack (e.g.:
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more than eight function arguments, an argument of more than sixteen
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bytes, or more than 64 bytes of argument data, depending on
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architecture).
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1.3 Return Probes
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1.3.1 How Does a Return Probe Work?
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