This patch introduce kprobeopt for ARM 32.
Limitations:
- Currently only kernel compiled with ARM ISA is supported.
- Offset between probe point and optinsn slot must not larger than
32MiB. Masami Hiramatsu suggests replacing 2 words, it will make
things complex. Futher patch can make such optimization.
Kprobe opt on ARM is relatively simpler than kprobe opt on x86 because
ARM instruction is always 4 bytes aligned and 4 bytes long. This patch
replace probed instruction by a 'b', branch to trampoline code and then
calls optimized_callback(). optimized_callback() calls opt_pre_handler()
to execute kprobe handler. It also emulate/simulate replaced instruction.
When unregistering kprobe, the deferred manner of unoptimizer may leave
branch instruction before optimizer is called. Different from x86_64,
which only copy the probed insn after optprobe_template_end and
reexecute them, this patch call singlestep to emulate/simulate the insn
directly. Futher patch can optimize this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
This patch prohibits probing instructions for which the stack
requirements are unable to be determined statically. Some test cases
are found not work again after the modification, this patch also
removes them.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
This patch introdces 'checker' to decoding phase, and calls checkers
when instruction decoding. This allows further decoding for specific
instructions. This patch introduces a stub call of checkers in kprobe
arch_prepare_kprobe() as an example and for further expansion.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Wang Nan