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authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>2017-06-06 20:00:22 +0300
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-06-07 13:52:02 +0300
commite71a4e1bebaf7fd990efbdc04b38e5526914f0f1 (patch)
tree0f8906d0ba3979cd8020dd896aa6d764afb360df /arch/arm64/include/asm
parentf8af0b364e249eef0c71200826563947cd74267e (diff)
downloadlinux-e71a4e1bebaf7fd990efbdc04b38e5526914f0f1.tar.xz
arm64: ftrace: add support for far branches to dynamic ftrace
Currently, dynamic ftrace support in the arm64 kernel assumes that all core kernel code is within range of ordinary branch instructions that occur in module code, which is usually the case, but is no longer guaranteed now that we have support for module PLTs and address space randomization. Since on arm64, all patching of branch instructions involves function calls to the same entry point [ftrace_caller()], we can emit the modules with a trampoline that has unlimited range, and patch both the trampoline itself and the branch instruction to redirect the call via the trampoline. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> [will: minor clarification to smp_wmb() comment] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
index d57693f5d4ec..19bd97671bb8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ struct mod_plt_sec {
struct mod_arch_specific {
struct mod_plt_sec core;
struct mod_plt_sec init;
+
+ /* for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */
+ void *ftrace_trampoline;
};
#endif