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2015-01-13ARM: kprobes: enable OPTPROBES for ARM 32Wang Nan1-29/+0
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>
2012-03-24ARM: 7334/1: add jump label supportRabin Vincent1-0/+10
Add the arch-specific code to support jump labels for ARM and Thumb-2. This code will only be activated on compilers that are capable of building it. It has been tested with GCC 4.6 patched with the patch from GCC bug 48637. Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-24ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftraceRabin Vincent1-0/+19
Extract out the instruction generation code so that it can be used for jump labels too. Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>