powerpc/kprobes: Implement Optprobes
authorAnju T <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 8 Feb 2017 09:50:51 +0000 (15:20 +0530)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:28:04 +0000 (13:28 +1100)
commit51c9c0843993528bffc920c54c2121d9e6f8b090
tree1ffd280d9ca0ce51faaa957d23c1e217ee0e2e20
parent30176466e36aadba01e1a630cf42397a3438efa4
powerpc/kprobes: Implement Optprobes

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>
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes_head.S [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c