BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c, branch dev

s390/maccess: remove potentially broken probe_kernel_write()

2015-03-25T10:49:43+00:00

Remove the s390 architecture implementation of probe_kernel_write() and instead use a new function s390_kernel_write() to modify kernel text and data everywhere. The s390 implementation of probe_kernel_write() was potentially broken since it modified memory in a read-modify-write fashion, which read four bytes, modified the requested bytes within those four bytes and wrote the result back. If two cpus would modify the same four byte area at different locations within that area, this could lead to corruption. Right now the only places which called probe_kernel_write() did run within stop_machine_run. Therefore the scenario can't happen right now, however that might change at any time. To fix this rename probe_kernel_write() to s390_kernel_write() which can have special semantics, like only call it while running within stop_machine(). Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing

2015-01-29T08:19:25+00:00

Make use of gcc's hotpatch support to generate better code for ftrace function tracing. The generated code now contains only a six byte nop in each function prologue instead of a 24 byte code block which will be runtime patched to support function tracing. With the new code generation the runtime overhead for supporting function tracing is close to zero, while the original code did show a significant performance impact. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/kprobes: fix instruction copy for out of line execution

2014-12-01T10:07:44+00:00

When we generate the instruction for out of line execution the length of the to be copied instruction was evaluated from a not initialized memory location. Therefore we ended up with a random (2, 4 or 6) number of bytes being copied instead of taking the real instruction length into account. This works surprisingly well most of the time, but still not always. Reported-by: Ursula Braun Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/kprobes: make use of NOKPROBE_SYMBOL()

2014-10-27T12:27:28+00:00

Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() instead of __kprobes annotation. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/ftrace,kprobes: allow to patch first instruction

2014-10-27T12:27:27+00:00

If the function tracer is enabled, allow to set kprobes on the first instruction of a function (which is the function trace caller): If no kprobe is set handling of enabling and disabling function tracing of a function simply patches the first instruction. Either it is a nop (right now it's an unconditional branch, which skips the mcount block), or it's a branch to the ftrace_caller() function. If a kprobe is being placed on a function tracer calling instruction we encode if we actually have a nop or branch in the remaining bytes after the breakpoint instruction (illegal opcode). This is possible, since the size of the instruction used for the nop and branch is six bytes, while the size of the breakpoint is only two bytes. Therefore the first two bytes contain the illegal opcode and the last four bytes contain either "0" for nop or "1" for branch. The kprobes code will then execute/simulate the correct instruction. Instruction patching for kprobes and function tracer is always done with stop_machine(). Therefore we don't have any races where an instruction is patched concurrently on a different cpu. Besides that also the program check handler which executes the function trace caller instruction won't be executed concurrently to any stop_machine() execution. This allows to keep full fault based kprobes handling which generates correct pt_regs contents automatically. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-10-15T05:48:18+00:00

Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo: "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other inconsistent operations. This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr(). Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(). This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully remove the obsolete accessors" * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits) irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write. percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses" percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator. arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr ...

s390/uprobes: common library for kprobes and uprobes

2014-09-25T08:52:14+00:00

This patch moves common functions from kprobes.c to probes.c. Thus its possible for uprobes to use them without enabling kprobes. Signed-off-by: Jan Willeke Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/kprobes: remove unused jprobe_return_end()

2014-09-09T06:53:29+00:00

Even if it has a __used annotation it is actually unused. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

2014-08-26T17:45:52+00:00

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset. Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when writing data or on the right side of an assignment. __get_cpu_var() is defined as : #define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var))) __get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on other platforms) to avoid the address calculation. this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu variables. This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that use the offset. Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers are used when code is generated. At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so the macro is removed too. The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86 arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e. using a global register that may be set to the per cpu base. Transformations done to __get_cpu_var() 1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y); 2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]); int *x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y); 3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu variable. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int x = __get_cpu_var(y) Converts to int x = __this_cpu_read(y); 4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y); struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x)); 5. Assignment to a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y) __get_cpu_var(y) = x; Converts to this_cpu_write(y, x); 6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); __get_cpu_var(y)++ Converts to this_cpu_inc(y) Cc: Martin Schwidefsky CC: linux390@de.ibm.com Acked-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-11-16T00:47:22+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...