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* [PATCH v2 0/2] powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE
@ 2017-02-14  8:02 Ravi Bangoria
  2017-02-14  8:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Ravi Bangoria
  2017-02-14  8:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc: emulate_step tests for load/store instructions Ravi Bangoria
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ravi Bangoria @ 2017-02-14  8:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel, mpe
  Cc: benh, paulus, lsorense, oohall, naveen.n.rao, ast, chris,
	aneesh.kumar, bsingharora, anton, paul.gortmaker, bauerman, viro,
	christophe.leroy, duwe, oss, Ravi Bangoria

emulate_step is the basic infrastructure which is used by number of other
kernel infrastructures like kprobe, hw-breakpoint(data breakpoint) etc.
In case of kprobe, enabling emulation of load/store instructions will
speedup the execution of probed instruction. In case of kernel-space
breakpoint, causative instruction is first get emulated before executing
user registered handler. If emulation fails, hw-breakpoint is disabled
with error. As emulate_step does not support load/store instructions on
LE, kernel-space hw-breakpoint infrastructure is broken on LE.

emulate_step() uses a number of underlying kernel functions that were
initially not enabled for LE. This has been rectified since. So, fix
emulate_step() for LE for the corresponding instructions.

Also add selftest which will run at boot if CONFIG_KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
and CONFIG_PPC64 is set.

Changes in v2:
  - Folded 2nd and 3rd patch of v1 into one patch, as suggested by Naveen

v1 link: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg110671.html

Ravi Bangoria (2):
  powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE
  powerpc: emulate_step tests for load/store instructions

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h |   7 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/sstep.h      |   8 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c         |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile             |   4 +
 arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c              |  20 --
 arch/powerpc/lib/test_emulate_step.c  | 439 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/lib/test_emulate_step.c

-- 
1.8.3.1

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