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>
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ int instr_is_branch_to_addr(const unsigned int *instr, unsigned long addr);
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unsigned long branch_target(const unsigned int *instr);
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unsigned int translate_branch(const unsigned int *dest,
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const unsigned int *src);
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extern bool is_conditional_branch(unsigned int instr);
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#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E_64
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void __patch_exception(int exc, unsigned long addr);
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#define patch_exception(exc, name) do { \
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