[tip:x86/asm] x86-64: move save_paranoid into .kprobes.text

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 07:58:38 EST


Commit-ID: c2810188c1b810c68139608a207befae0a4f1e69
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c2810188c1b810c68139608a207befae0a4f1e69
Author: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:38:55 +0000
Commit: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:57:46 +0100

x86-64: move save_paranoid into .kprobes.text

Impact: mark save_paranoid as non-kprobe-able code

This appears to be necessary as the function gets called from
kprobes-unsafe exception handling stubs (i.e. which themselves
live in .kprobes.text).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <49B8F44F.76E4.0078.0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 54866bb..a331ec3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ ENTRY(save_rest)
END(save_rest)

/* save complete stack frame */
+ .pushsection .kprobes.text, "ax"
ENTRY(save_paranoid)
XCPT_FRAME 1 RDI+8
cld
@@ -396,6 +397,7 @@ ENTRY(save_paranoid)
1: ret
CFI_ENDPROC
END(save_paranoid)
+ .popsection

/*
* A newly forked process directly context switches into this address.
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