[tip:perf/urgent] kprobes/x86: Mark 2 bytes NOP as boostable

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Commit-ID:  b7e37567d080301d38a302bb93ba79d1ca446dca
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/b7e37567d080301d38a302bb93ba79d1ca446dca
Author:     Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:34:05 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:50:12 +0100

kprobes/x86: Mark 2 bytes NOP as boostable

Currently, x86 kprobes is unable to boost 2 bytes nop like:

  nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)

which is 0x0f 0x1f 0x44 0x00 0x00.

Such nops have exactly 5 bytes to hold a relative jmp
instruction. Boosting them should be obviously safe.

This patch enable boosting such nops by simply updating
twobyte_is_boostable[] array.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423532045-41049-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index 98f654d..6a1146e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static volatile u32 twobyte_is_boostable[256 / 32] = {
 	/*      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f          */
 	/*      ----------------------------------------------          */
 	W(0x00, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | /* 00 */
-	W(0x10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) , /* 10 */
+	W(0x10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1) , /* 10 */
 	W(0x20, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | /* 20 */
 	W(0x30, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) , /* 30 */
 	W(0x40, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1) | /* 40 */
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