kernel/git/stable/linux.git/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h, branch master

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00

from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in Kconfig

2008-03-05T00:35:11+00:00

Add CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch//Kconfig file for relevant architectures with kprobes support. This facilitates easy handling of in-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on kretprobes being present in the kernel. Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean. Per Mathieu's suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist

2007-10-16T16:43:10+00:00

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 Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft

2007-10-16T16:42:50+00:00

x86(-64) are the last architectures still using the page fault notifier cruft for the kprobes page fault hook. This patch converts them to the proper direct calls, and removes the now unused pagefault notifier bits aswell as the cruft in kprobes.c that was related to this mess. I know Andi didn't really like this, but all other architecture maintainers agreed the direct calls are much better and besides the obvious cruft removal a common way of dealing with kprobes across architectures is important aswell. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

jprobes: remove JPROBE_ENTRY()

2007-07-19T17:04:44+00:00

AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything useful - so remove it .. I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still compile without modifications. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0'

2007-07-17T17:23:03+00:00

KSYM_NAME_LEN is peculiar in that it does not include the space for the trailing '\0', forcing all users to use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 when allocating buffer. This is nonsense and error-prone. Moreover, when the caller forgets that it's very likely to subtly bite back by corrupting the stack because the last position of the buffer is always cleared to zero. This patch increments KSYM_NAME_LEN by one and updates code accordingly. * off-by-one bug in asm-powerpc/kprobes.h::kprobe_lookup_name() macro is fixed. * Where MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN were used together, MODULE_NAME_LEN was treated as if it didn't include space for the trailing '\0'. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Paulo Marques Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Minor fault path optimization

2007-05-02T10:57:39+00:00

Call the kprobes pagefault handler directly instead of going through the complex notifier chain. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Transparently handle <.symbol> lookup for kprobes

2007-05-02T10:04:32+00:00

When data symbols are not present in kernel image, user needs to add dot(".") before function name explicitly, that he wants to probe in kprobe module on ppc64. for ex:- When data symbols are missing on ppc64, ==================== [root@llm27lp1 ~]# cat /proc/kallsyms | grep do_fork c00000000006283c T .do_fork ============================== User needs add "." to "do_fork" kp.symbol_name = ".do_fork"; ============================ This makes kprobe modules unportable. This fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Srinivasa Ds Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] kprobes: Eliminate sstep exception if instruction can be emulated

2007-04-24T11:31:58+00:00

For cases when probes are placed on instructions that can be emulated, don't take the single-step exception. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Added kprobes support to ppc32

2007-02-07T04:55:19+00:00

Added kprobes to ppc32 platforms that have use single_step_exception. This excludes 4xx and anything Book-E since their debug mechanisms for single stepping are completely different. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala