From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
davem@davemloft.net, prasanna@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:22:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041119065258.GA6863@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041118144746.7daa9395.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:47:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Here is a patch that adds a wrapper for defining jprobe.entry to make
> > it easy to handle the three dword function descriptors defined by the
> > PowerPC ELF ABI.
> >
> > Current patch against 2.6.10-rc2-mm1 + kprobes patch for ppc64.
>
> I don't have the kprobes-for-ppc64 patch here.
>
> > Changes for adding this wrapper for x86, ppc64 (tested) and x86_64
> > (untested) below. The earlier method of defining jprobe.entry will
> > continue to work.
>
> So what should I do with this? I'm inclined to drop it until the x86_64
> part has been tested and Dave has had a go at the sparc64 version.
I have now tested the patch succesfully on x86_64 and updated it for
sparc64 too (Dave says the change looks good).
Please apply.
Thanks,
Ananth
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
diff -Naurp temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
--- temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:14:44.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:05:16.000000000 +0530
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
? (MAX_STACK_SIZE) \
: (((unsigned long)current_thread_info()) + THREAD_SIZE - (ADDR)))
+#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
+
/* Architecture specific copy of original instruction*/
struct arch_specific_insn {
/* copy of the original instruction */
diff -Naurp temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h
--- temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:14:44.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:05:16.000000000 +0530
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ typedef unsigned int kprobe_opcode_t;
#define BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION 0x7fe00008 /* trap */
#define MAX_INSN_SIZE 1
+#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)((func_descr_t *)pentry)
+
/* Architecture specific copy of original instruction */
struct arch_specific_insn {
/* copy of original instruction */
diff -Naurp temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
--- temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h 2004-11-15 06:57:53.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:07:24.000000000 +0530
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ typedef u32 kprobe_opcode_t;
#define BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION_2 0x91d02071 /* ta 0x71 */
#define MAX_INSN_SIZE 2
+#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
+
/* Architecture specific copy of original instruction*/
struct arch_specific_insn {
/* copy of the original instruction */
diff -Naurp temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
--- temp/linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:14:44.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h 2004-11-19 10:05:16.000000000 +0530
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
? (MAX_STACK_SIZE) \
: (((unsigned long)current_thread_info()) + THREAD_SIZE - (ADDR)))
+#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
+
/* Architecture specific copy of original instruction*/
struct arch_specific_insn {
/* copy of the original instruction */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-19 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 10:26 [PATCH] Kprobes: wrapper to define jprobe.entry Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2004-11-18 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-18 22:43 ` David S. Miller
2004-11-19 6:52 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [this message]
2004-11-19 7:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-19 9:03 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
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