Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] kprobes: arm: enable OPTPROBES for ARM 32

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Aug 28 2014 - 06:20:25 EST


(2014/08/27 22:02), Wang Nan wrote:
> +/*
> + * ARM can always optimize an instruction when using ARM ISA.
> + */

Hmm, this comment looks not correct anymore :)

> +int arch_prepared_optinsn(struct arch_optimized_insn *optinsn)
> +{
> + return optinsn->prepared;
> +}

BTW, why don't you check optinsn->insn != NULL ?
If it is not prepared for optimizing, optinsn->insn always be NULL.

[...]
> +int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op)
> +{
> + u8 *buf;
> + unsigned long rel_chk;
> + unsigned long val;
> +
> + if (!can_optimize(op))
> + return -EILSEQ;
> +
> + op->optinsn.insn = get_optinsn_slot();
> + if (!op->optinsn.insn)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + /*
> + * Verify if the address gap is in 32MiB range, because this uses
> + * a relative jump.
> + *
> + * kprobe opt use a 'b' instruction to branch to optinsn.insn.
> + * According to ARM manual, branch instruction is:
> + *
> + * 31 28 27 24 23 0
> + * +------+---+---+---+---+----------------+
> + * | cond | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | imm24 |
> + * +------+---+---+---+---+----------------+
> + *
> + * imm24 is a signed 24 bits integer. The real branch offset is computed
> + * by: imm32 = SignExtend(imm24:'00', 32);
> + *
> + * So the maximum forward branch should be:
> + * (0x007fffff << 2) = 0x01fffffc = 0x1fffffc
> + * The maximum backword branch should be:
> + * (0xff800000 << 2) = 0xfe000000 = -0x2000000
> + *
> + * We can simply check (rel & 0xfe000003):
> + * if rel is positive, (rel & 0xfe000000) shoule be 0
> + * if rel is negitive, (rel & 0xfe000000) should be 0xfe000000
> + * the last '3' is used for alignment checking.
> + */
> + rel_chk = (unsigned long)((long)op->optinsn.insn -
> + (long)op->kp.addr + 8) & 0xfe000003;
> +
> + if ((rel_chk != 0) && (rel_chk != 0xfe000000)) {
> + __arch_remove_optimized_kprobe(op, 0);
> + return -ERANGE;
> + }
> +
> + buf = (u8 *)op->optinsn.insn;
> +
> + /* Copy arch-dep-instance from template */
> + memcpy(buf, &optprobe_template_entry, TMPL_END_IDX);
> +
> + /* Set probe information */
> + val = (unsigned long)op;
> + memcpy(buf + TMPL_VAL_IDX, &val, sizeof(val));
> +
> + /* Set probe function call */
> + val = (unsigned long)optimized_callback;
> + memcpy(buf + TMPL_CALL_IDX, &val, sizeof(val));
> +
> + flush_icache_range((unsigned long)buf,
> + (unsigned long)buf + TMPL_END_IDX);
> +
> + op->optinsn.prepared = true;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +

Thank you,

--
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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