[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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/process.c
index aba89554d89d..f7cae05e40fb 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/process.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
+#include <linux/kprobes.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -307,6 +308,8 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs * regs)
 
 void exit_thread(void)
 {
+        kprobe_flush_task(current);
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
         if (last_task_used_math == current)
                 last_task_used_math = NULL;
@@ -321,6 +324,7 @@ void flush_thread(void)
 {
         struct thread_info *t = current_thread_info();
 
+        kprobe_flush_task(current);
         if (t->flags & _TIF_ABI_PENDING)
                 t->flags ^= (_TIF_ABI_PENDING | _TIF_32BIT);