When experimenting with patches to provide kprobes support for aarch64
smp machines would hang when inserting breakpoints into kernel code.
The hangs were caused by a race condition in the code called by
aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync(). The first processor in the
aarch64_insn_patch_text_cb() function would patch the code while other
processors were still entering the function and incrementing the
cpu_count field. This resulted in some processors never observing the
exit condition and exiting the function. Thus, processors in the
system hung.
The first processor to enter the patching function performs the
patching and signals that the patching is complete with an increment
of the cpu_count field. When all the processors have incremented the
cpu_count field the cpu_count will be num_cpus_online()+1 and they
will return to normal execution.
Fixes: ae16480785 arm64: introduce interfaces to hotpatch kernel and module code
Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Following a recent series of enhancements to the insn code the ARMv8
allnoconfig build has been generating a large number of warnings in the
form of:
arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c:689:8: warning: 'insn' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
This is because BUG() and related macros can be compiled out so we get
execution paths which normally result in a panic compiling out to noops
instead.
I wasn't able to immediately identify a sensible return value to use in
these cases so just return AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT - this is all "should
never happen" code so hopefully it never has a practical impact.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT definition contributed by Daniel Borkmann]
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: replace return 0 with AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Introduce aarch64_insn_gen_{nop|branch_imm}() helper functions, which
will be used to implement jump label on ARM64.
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Function encode_insn_immediate() will be used by other instruction
manipulate related functions, so move it into insn.c and rename it
as aarch64_insn_encode_immediate().
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Introduce three interfaces to patch kernel and module code:
aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync():
patch code without synchronization, it's caller's responsibility
to synchronize all CPUs if needed.
aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync():
patch code and always synchronize with stop_machine()
aarch64_insn_patch_text():
patch code and synchronize with stop_machine() if needed
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
