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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2014-10-15 12:17:38 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2014-10-27 13:27:27 +0100
commitc933146a5e41e42ea3eb4f34fa02e201da3f068e (patch)
treeb5c108df5c2e4756e2c4fc2014a83663bdaba549 /arch/s390/kernel/early.c
parentf7f242ff004499e0904d3664713dfba01f24c408 (diff)
s390/ftrace,kprobes: allow to patch first instruction
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 <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel/early.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/early.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/early.c b/arch/s390/kernel/early.c
index cef2879edff3..302ac1f7f8e7 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/early.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/early.c
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
-#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <linux/lockdep.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/pfn.h>
@@ -490,8 +489,5 @@ void __init startup_init(void)
detect_machine_facilities();
setup_topology();
sclp_early_detect();
-#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
- S390_lowcore.ftrace_func = (unsigned long)ftrace_caller;
-#endif
lockdep_on();
}