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author | Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> | 2005-06-27 15:17:15 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-27 15:23:53 -0700 |
commit | 97f7943d70ff0e1e92ea627c44cfacfdae65dbc4 (patch) | |
tree | e2a042a3bb5014ee98551bd5d42dc3b21a42e1ec /include/asm-ppc64 | |
parent | 9508dbfe39112813612085c00d55bacd398eddc6 (diff) |
[PATCH] Return probe redesign: ppc64 specific implementation
The following is a patch provided by Ananth Mavinakayanahalli that implements
the new PPC64 specific parts of the new function return probe design.
NOTE: Since getting Ananth's patch, I changed trampoline_probe_handler()
to consume each of the outstanding return probem instances (feedback
on my original RFC after Ananth cut a patch), and also added the
arch_init() function (adding arch specific initialization.) I have
cross compiled but have not testing this on a PPC64 machine.
Changes include:
* Addition of kretprobe_trampoline to act as a dummy function for instrumented
functions to return to, and for the return probe infrastructure to place
a kprobe on on, gaining control so that the return probe handler
can be called, and so that the instruction pointer can be moved back
to the original return address.
* Addition of arch_init(), allowing a kprobe to be registered on
kretprobe_trampoline
* Addition of trampoline_probe_handler() which is used as the pre_handler
for the kprobe inserted on kretprobe_implementation. This is the function
that handles the details for calling the return probe handler function
and returning control back at the original return address
* Addition of arch_prepare_kretprobe() which is setup as the pre_handler
for a kprobe registered at the beginning of the target function by
kernel/kprobes.c so that a return probe instance can be setup when
a caller enters the target function. (A return probe instance contains
all the needed information for trampoline_probe_handler to do it's job.)
* Hooks added to the exit path of a task so that we can cleanup any left-over
return probe instances (i.e. if a task dies while inside a targeted function
then the return probe instance was reserved at the beginning of the function
but the function never returns so we need to mark the instance as unused.)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-ppc64')
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h index 790cf7c52774..0802919c3235 100644 --- a/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h +++ b/include/asm-ppc64/kprobes.h @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ typedef unsigned int kprobe_opcode_t; #define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)((func_descr_t *)pentry) +#define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES +void kretprobe_trampoline(void); + /* Architecture specific copy of original instruction */ struct arch_specific_insn { /* copy of original instruction */ |