ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions

Introducing *_text_reserved functions for checking the text
address range is partially reserved or not. This patch provides
checking routines for x86 smp alternatives and dynamic ftrace.
Since both functions modify fixed pieces of kernel text, they
should reserve and protect those from other dynamic text
modifier, like kprobes.

This will also be extended when introducing other subsystems
which modify fixed pieces of kernel text. Dynamic text modifiers
should avoid those.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214911.4694.16587.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index de7353c0ce9c..3c13284ff86d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -390,6 +390,22 @@ void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp)
         mutex_unlock(&smp_alt);
 }
 
+/* Return 1 if the address range is reserved for smp-alternatives */
+int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
+{
+        struct smp_alt_module *mod;
+        u8 **ptr;
+
+        list_for_each_entry(mod, &smp_alt_modules, next) {
+                if (mod->text > end || mod->text_end < start)
+                        continue;
+                for (ptr = mod->locks; ptr < mod->locks_end; ptr++)
+                        if (start <= *ptr && end >= *ptr)
+                                return 1;
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT