From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.156.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tf1wd40cKzDvwx for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:18:57 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098399.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.17/8.16.0.17) with SMTP id uBEGEduX076669 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:18:55 -0500 Received: from e23smtp08.au.ibm.com (e23smtp08.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.141]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 27b8rc38g7-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:18:55 -0500 Received: from localhost by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:18:53 +1000 Received: from d23relay08.au.ibm.com (d23relay08.au.ibm.com [9.185.71.33]) by d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F653578057 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:18:51 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay08.au.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id uBEGIpNZ57082110 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:18:51 +1100 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id uBEGIoQM031343 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:18:51 +1100 From: Anju T Sudhakar To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com, naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: [PATCH V2 4/4] arch/powerpc: Optimize kprobe in kretprobe_trampoline Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:48:28 +0530 In-Reply-To: <1481732310-7779-1-git-send-email-anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1481732310-7779-1-git-send-email-anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <1481732310-7779-3-git-send-email-anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Kprobe placed on the kretprobe_trampoline during boot time can be optimized, since the instruction at probe point is a 'nop'. Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar --- arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index e785cc9..5b0fd07 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ asm(".global kretprobe_trampoline\n" ".type kretprobe_trampoline, @function\n" "kretprobe_trampoline:\n" "nop\n" + "blr\n" ".size kretprobe_trampoline, .-kretprobe_trampoline\n"); /* @@ -334,6 +335,13 @@ static int __kprobes trampoline_probe_handler(struct kprobe *p, kretprobe_assert(ri, orig_ret_address, trampoline_address); regs->nip = orig_ret_address; + /* + * Make LR point to the orig_ret_address. + * When the 'nop' inside the kretprobe_trampoline + * is optimized, we can do a 'blr' after executing the + * detour buffer code. + */ + regs->link = orig_ret_address; reset_current_kprobe(); kretprobe_hash_unlock(current, &flags); diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c index ecba221..5e4c254 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c @@ -72,12 +72,11 @@ static unsigned long can_optimize(struct kprobe *p) /* * kprobe placed for kretprobe during boot time - * is not optimizing now. - * - * TODO: Optimize kprobe in kretprobe_trampoline + * has a 'nop' instruction, which can be emulated. + * So further checks can be skipped. */ if (p->addr == (kprobe_opcode_t *)&kretprobe_trampoline) - return 0; + return (unsigned long)p->addr + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t); /* * We only support optimizing kernel addresses, but not -- 2.7.4