From 0dc016dbd820260b8ea74337980735b8c88d4ef2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wang Nan Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:37:36 +0800 Subject: ARM: kprobes: enable OPTPROBES for ARM 32 This patch introduce kprobeopt for ARM 32. Limitations: - Currently only kernel compiled with ARM ISA is supported. - Offset between probe point and optinsn slot must not larger than 32MiB. Masami Hiramatsu suggests replacing 2 words, it will make things complex. Futher patch can make such optimization. Kprobe opt on ARM is relatively simpler than kprobe opt on x86 because ARM instruction is always 4 bytes aligned and 4 bytes long. This patch replace probed instruction by a 'b', branch to trampoline code and then calls optimized_callback(). optimized_callback() calls opt_pre_handler() to execute kprobe handler. It also emulate/simulate replaced instruction. When unregistering kprobe, the deferred manner of unoptimizer may leave branch instruction before optimizer is called. Different from x86_64, which only copy the probed insn after optprobe_template_end and reexecute them, this patch call singlestep to emulate/simulate the insn directly. Futher patch can optimize this behavior. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Will Deacon Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 97d07ed60a0b..3d5dc2df835b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config ARM select HAVE_MEMBLOCK select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC if ARM_UNWIND select HAVE_OPROFILE if (HAVE_PERF_EVENTS) + select HAVE_OPTPROBES if !THUMB2_KERNEL select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS select HAVE_PERF_REGS select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP -- cgit v1.2.3