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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.
None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.
While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.
There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.
So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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This replaces comments with C99's designated initializers because the
kernel supports them now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220326165909.506926-3-benni@stuerz.xyz
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Stürz <benni@stuerz.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Since now there is kretprobe_trampoline_addr() for referring the
address of kretprobe trampoline code, we don't need to access
kretprobe_trampoline directly.
Make it harder to refer by renaming it to __kretprobe_trampoline().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163045446.489837.14510577516938803097.stgit@devnote2
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The __kretprobe_trampoline_handler() callback, called from low level
arch kprobes methods, has the 'trampoline_address' parameter, which is
entirely superfluous as it basically just replicates:
dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(kretprobe_trampoline)
In fact we had bugs in arch code where it wasn't replicated correctly.
So remove this superfluous parameter and use kretprobe_trampoline_addr()
instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163044546.489837.13505751885476015002.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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dereference_symbol_descriptor()
~15 years ago kprobes grew the 'arch_deref_entry_point()' __weak function:
3d7e33825d87: ("jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users")
But this is just open-coded dereference_symbol_descriptor() in essence, and
its obscure nature was causing bugs.
Just use the real thing and remove arch_deref_entry_point().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163043630.489837.7924988885652708696.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The following commit:
Commit e792ff804f49 ("ia64: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler")
Passed the wrong trampoline address to __kretprobe_trampoline_handler(): it
passes the descriptor address instead of function entry address.
Pass the right parameter.
Also use correct symbol dereference function to get the function address
from 'kretprobe_trampoline' - an IA64 special.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163042696.489837.12551102356265354730.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: e792ff804f49 ("ia64: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler")
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Kprobes has a counter 'nmissed', that is used to count the number of
times a probe handler was not called. This generally happens when we hit
a kprobe while handling another kprobe.
However, if one of the probe handlers causes a fault, we are currently
incrementing 'nmissed'. The comment in fault handler indicates that this
can be used to account faults taken by the probe handlers. But, this has
never been the intention as is evident from the comment above 'nmissed'
in 'struct kprobe':
/*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */
unsigned long nmissed;
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601120150.672652-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment:
* We come here because instructions in the pre/post
* handler caused the page_fault, this could happen
* if handler tries to access user space by
* copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the
* user-specified handler try to fix it first.
Is just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible
context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no
upstream usage of this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
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Use the generic kretprobe trampoline handler. Don't use
framepointer verification.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159870606883.1229682.12331813108378725668.stgit@devnote2
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The replacement of <asm/pgrable.h> with <linux/pgtable.h> made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes. Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.
import sys
import re
if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
print "USAGE: %s <file> <header>" % (sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(1)
hdr_to_move="#include <linux/%s>" % sys.argv[2]
moved = False
in_hdrs = False
with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
lines = f.readlines()
for _line in lines:
line = _line.rstrip('
')
if line == hdr_to_move:
continue
if line.startswith("#include <linux/"):
in_hdrs = True
elif not moved and in_hdrs:
moved = True
print hdr_to_move
print line
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.
Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.
Switch the entry code and kprobes over to use CONFIG_PREEMPTION.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191015191821.11479-10-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190812065524.19959-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Clear current_kprobe and enable preemption in kprobe
even if pre_handler returns !0.
This simplifies function override using kprobes.
Jprobe used to require to keep the preemption disabled and
keep current_kprobe until it returned to original function
entry. For this reason kprobe_int3_handler() and similar
arch dependent kprobe handers checks pre_handler result
and exit without enabling preemption if the result is !0.
After removing the jprobe, Kprobes does not need to
keep preempt disabled even if user handler returns !0
anymore.
But since the function override handler in error-inject
and bpf is also returns !0 if it overrides a function,
to balancing the preempt count, it enables preemption
and reset current kprobe by itself.
That is a bad design that is very buggy. This fixes
such unbalanced preempt-count and current_kprobes setting
in kprobes, bpf and error-inject.
Note: for powerpc and x86, this removes all preempt_disable
from kprobe_ftrace_handler because ftrace callbacks are
called under preempt disabled.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/152942494574.15209.12323837825873032258.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Don't call the ->break_handler() from the ia64 kprobes code,
because it was only used by jprobes which got removed.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/152942480045.15209.10715901482832337704.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Remove arch dependent setjump/longjump functions
and unused fields in kprobe_ctlblk for jprobes
from arch/ia64.
Note that since ia64 jprobes code is a bit different
from other architectures, this keeps __IA64_BREAK_JPROBE
for checking the ->break_handler(). It will be removed
with the break_handler() calls afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/152942448152.15209.2026051332977587306.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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We start with a delete of a duplicate prototype in asm/exception.h
that no longer needs to exist, as it duplicates content in extable.h
and since that header is so small, there is no point trying to
avoid using it.
Then we make sure anyone using search_exception_tables directly or
via the ia64_done_with_exception macro has included extable.h
In the process, we remove an include of moduleloader.h that was
apparently not really required; it would have been fetching in
module.h and hence the previous location of the exception search
function prototypes, but we need not rely on that anymore.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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Move ia64_done_with_exception out of asm/uaccess.h (which is widely
used) and into asm/exception.h (like ARM has) and then ensure the
few callers of it include this new header.
Most of the other C content in asm files is implemented in macro form.
So we do that conversion at the same time as the move.
There are two C exception prototypes that move along with the macro.
One of them will become redundant when we switch over to using the
<linux/extable.h> instead of <linux/module.h> header in a subsequent
commit.
Also relocate a couple of the automated asm --> linux uaccess
conversions to preserve the linux and asm independent grouping, since
we are in the file at that location anyway.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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__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: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Anoop Thomas Mathew <atm@profoundis.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y at this time,
because it can't ensure that all kernel threads preempted on
kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot even using
freeze_processes().
The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if
synchronize_tasks() or something like that is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214904.4694.24330.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Check CONFIG_FREEZER instead of CONFIG_PM because kprobe booster
depends on freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.
This fixes a linkage error which occurs when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, CONFIG_PM=y
and CONFIG_FREEZER=n.
Reported-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
...
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Add kprobe_insn_mutex for protecting kprobe_insn_pages hlist, and remove
kprobe_mutex from architecture dependent code.
This allows us to call arch_remove_kprobe() (and free_insn_slot) while
holding kprobe_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than
Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Currently list of kretprobe instances are stored in kretprobe object (as
used_instances,free_instances) and in kretprobe hash table. We have one
global kretprobe lock to serialise the access to these lists. This causes
only one kretprobe handler to execute at a time. Hence affects system
performance, particularly on SMP systems and when return probe is set on
lot of functions (like on all systemcalls).
Solution proposed here gives fine-grain locks that performs better on SMP
system compared to present kretprobe implementation.
Solution:
1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances
present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table. We will have
two locks, one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another
lock for kretporbe object.
2) We hold lock present in kretprobe object while we modify kretprobe
instance in kretprobe object and we hold per-hash-list lock while
modifying kretprobe instances present in that hash list. To prevent
deadlock, we never grab a per-hash-list lock while holding a kretprobe
lock.
3) We can remove used_instances from struct kretprobe, as we can
track used instances of kretprobe instances using kretprobe hash
table.
Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8") on a 8-way ppc64 system
with return probes set on all systemcalls looks like this.
cacheline non-cacheline Un-patched kernel
aligned patch aligned patch
===============================================================================
real 9m46.784s 9m54.412s 10m2.450s
user 40m5.715s 40m7.142s 40m4.273s
sys 2m57.754s 2m58.583s 3m17.430s
===========================================================
Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8) on the same system, when
kernel is not probed.
=========================
real 9m26.389s
user 40m8.775s
sys 2m7.283s
=========================
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add kprobe-booster support on ia64.
Kprobe-booster improves the performance of kprobes by eliminating single-step,
where possible. Currently, kprobe-booster is implemented on x86 and x86-64.
This is an ia64 port.
On ia64, kprobe-booster executes a copied bundle directly, instead of single
stepping. Bundles which have B or X unit and which may cause an exception
(including break) are not executed directly. And also, to prevent hitting
break exceptions on the copied bundle, only the hindmost kprobe is executed
directly if several kprobes share a bundle and are placed in different slots.
Note: set_brl_inst() is used for preparing an instruction buffer(it does not
modify any active code), so it does not need any atomic operation.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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ia64 named their handler kprobes_fault_handler while all other
arches used kprobe_fault_handler. Change the function definition
and header declaration.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch fixes the following compile error with a recent gcc:
CC kernel/kprobes.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/kernel/kprobes.c:1066: error: __ksymtab_jprobe_return causes a section type conflict
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Fix the order of atomic operations to prevent overwriting prev_kprobe[0].
To pop values from stack, we must decrement stack index right AFTER
reading values.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Restore regs->ccr_iip before kreturn probe handler runs. In this way, if
probe handler does unwind, unwind can correctly get the stack trace.
Fixes: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5051
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users
from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be
inserted but kretprobes can not.
This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and
registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to
prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use. This guy I know once
wrote code like this:
struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };
And then his kernel exploded. Oops.
This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.
We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Get rid of the notifier list and call the kprobes code directly
if compiled in. This mirrors the changes that recently went
into powerpc, s390 and sparc64.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Spelling and apostrophe fixes in arch/ia64/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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In case of reentrance i.e when a probe handler calls a functions which
inturn has a probe, we save a previous kprobe information and just single
step the reentrant probe without calling the actual probe handler. During
this reentracy period, if an interrupt occurs and if probe happens to
trigger in the inturrupt path, then we were corrupting the previous kprobe(
as we were overriding the previous kprobe info) info their by crashing the
system. This patch fixes this issues by having a an array of previous
kprobe info struct(with the array size of 2).
This similar technique is not needed on i386 and x86_64 because by default
interrupts are turn off in the break/int3 exception handler.
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off
o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but
not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case.
o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones
registered in the intervening period) will be enabled
o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally
enabled or not.
o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there
also update the doc to make it current.
We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling
feature provided by this patch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels]
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390]
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- consolidate duplicate code in all arch_prepare_kretprobe instances
into common code
- replace various odd helpers that use hlist_for_each_entry to get
the first elemenet of a list with either a hlist_for_each_entry_save
or an opencoded access to the first element in the caller
- inline add_rp_inst into it's only remaining caller
- use kretprobe_inst_table_head instead of opencoding it
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In certain cases like when the real return address can't be found or when
the number of tracked calls to a kretprobed function is less than the
number of returns, we may not be able to find the correct return address
after processing a kretprobe. Currently we just do a BUG_ON, but no
information is provided about the actual failing kretprobe.
Print out details of the kretprobe before calling BUG().
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On IA64 there exists some special instructions which
always need to be executed regradless of qp bits, such
as com.crel.unc, tbit.trel.unc etc.
This patch clears qp bits when inserting kprobe trap code
and disables probepoint on slot 1 for these special
instructions.
Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Because slot 1 of one instr bundle crosses border of two consecutive
8-bytes, kprobe on slot 1 is disabled. This patch enables kprobe on
slot1, it only replaces higher 8-bytes of the instruction bundle and
changes the exception code to ignore the low 12 bits of the break
number (which is across the border in the lower 8-bytes of the bundle).
For those instructions which must execute regardless qp bits,
kprobe on slot 1 is still disabled.
Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
[IA64] resolve name clash by renaming is_available_memory()
[IA64] Need export for csum_ipv6_magic
[IA64] Fix DISCONTIGMEM without VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP
[PATCH] Add support for type argument in PAL_GET_PSTATE
[IA64] tidy up return value of ip_fast_csum
[IA64] implement csum_ipv6_magic for ia64.
[IA64] More Itanium PAL spec updates
[IA64] Update processor_info features
[IA64] Add se bit to Processor State Parameter structure
[IA64] Add dp bit to cache and bus check structs
[IA64] SN: Correctly update smp_affinty mask
[IA64] sparse cleanups
[IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdump
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0/NULL confusion and some missing UL on constants.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its
instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some
processes might be preempted on the buffer. The freeze_processes() and
thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer.
There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag. If
those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the
buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing.
However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time. So, this
patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot. It also
introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency.
The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released
immediately. But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are
marked as garbages. collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release
"dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if
there are no unused slots.
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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kprobe_flush_task() possibly calls kfree function during holding
kretprobe_lock spinlock, if kfree function is probed by kretprobe that will
incur spinlock deadlock. This patch moves kfree function out scope of
kretprobe_lock.
Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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