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* ARM: optprobes: execute instruction during restoring if possible.Wang Nan2015-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes software emulation or simulation for most of probed instructions. If the instruction doesn't use PC relative addressing, it will be translated into following instructions in the restore code in code template: ldmia {r0 - r14} // restore all instruction except PC <instruction> // direct execute the probed instruction b next_insn // branch to next instruction. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
* ARM: kprobes: enable OPTPROBES for ARM 32Wang Nan2015-01-13
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 <wangnan0@huawei.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>