ARM: kprobes: enable OPTPROBES for ARM 32

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>
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Wang Nan
2015-01-09 14:37:36 +08:00
committed by Jon Medhurst
parent cbf6ab52ad
commit 0dc016dbd8
10 changed files with 377 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC if ARM_UNWIND
select HAVE_OPROFILE if (HAVE_PERF_EVENTS)
select HAVE_OPTPROBES if !THUMB2_KERNEL
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select HAVE_PERF_REGS
select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP