History log of /arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.h
Revision Date Author Comments
2c89240b630e94c1a5949860b7bfcf28130bd9c8 27-Aug-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add exports for test code

The test code will be using kprobes' internal decoding tables so we
need to export these for when then the tests are compiled as a module.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
df4fa1f8dde23db25f50e49535d2c7db0005f9ad 01-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add alu_write_pc()

This writes a new value to PC which was obtained as the result of an ARM
ALU instruction. For ARMv7 and later this performs interworking.

On ARM kernels we shouldn't encounter any ALU instructions trying to
switch to Thumb mode so support for this isn't strictly necessary.
However, the approach taken in all other instruction decoding is for us
to avoid unpredictable modification of the PC for security reasons. This
is usually achieved by rejecting insertion of probes on problematic
instruction, but for ALU instructions we can't do this as it depends on
the contents of the CPU registers at the time the probe is hit. So, as
we require some form of run-time checking to trap undesirable PC
modification, we may as well simulate the instructions correctly, i.e.
in the way they would behave in the absence of a probe.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
235a4ce79feb8d5351f9164981bc57d5e29f974b 07-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add common decoding function for LDM and STM

The encoding of these instructions is substantially the same for both
ARM and Thumb, so we can have common decoding and simulation functions.

This patch moves the simulation functions from kprobes-arm.c to
kprobes-common.c. It also adds a new simulation function
(simulate_ldm1_pc) for the case where we load into PC because this may
need to interwork.

The instruction decoding is done by a custom function
(kprobe_decode_ldmstm) rather than just relying on decoding table
entries because we will later be adding optimisation code.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
263e368a2f1f960db07d7524a4a3e7df951f1f72 10-Jun-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add load_write_pc()

This writes a value to PC which was obtained as the result of a
LDR or LDM instruction. For ARMv5T and later this must perform
interworking.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
059987ffa7f8905fada25c8af1734e254209c55d 09-Jun-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add bx_write_pc()

This writes a value to PC, with interworking. I.e. switches to Thumb or
ARM mode depending on the state of the least significant bit.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
3f92dfed6a9a5f490128c8e7cc6a64dfe412994f 02-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Decode 16-bit Thumb hint instructions

For hints which may have observable effects, like SEV (send event), we
use kprobe_emulate_none which emulates the hint by executing the
original instruction.

For NOP we simulate the instruction using kprobe_simulate_nop, which
does nothing. As probes execute with interrupts disabled this is also
used for hints which may block for an indefinite time, like WFE (wait
for event).

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
0d1a095aa1e6e2a233bfb1729e15233e77f69d54 26-Apr-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Infrastructure for table driven decoding of CPU instructions

The existing ARM instruction decoding functions are a mass of if/else
code. Rather than follow this pattern for Thumb instruction decoding
this patch implements an infrastructure for a new table driven scheme.

This has several advantages:

- Reduces the kernel size by approx 2kB. (The ARM instruction decoding
will eventually have -3.1kB code, +1.3kB data; with similar or better
estimated savings for Thumb decoding.)

- Allows programmatic checking of decoding consistency and test case
coverage.

- Provides more uniform source code and is therefore, arguably, clearer.

For a detailed explanation of how decoding tables work see the in-source
documentation in kprobes.h, and also for kprobe_decode_insn().

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
3b26945597d5eff5d428a268c9d109338fce801e 16-Jun-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Use conditional breakpoints for ARM probes

Now we no longer trigger probes on conditional instructions when the
condition is false, we can make use of conditional instructions as
breakpoints in ARM code to avoid taking unnecessary exceptions.

Note, we can't rely on not getting an exception when the condition check
fails, as that is Implementation Defined on newer ARM architectures. We
therefore still need to perform manual condition checks as well.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
6aaa8b5570c7b5b9eb8913ec80263a1012b1dd66 16-Jun-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add it_advance()

This advances the ITSTATE bits in CPSR to their values for the next
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
aceb487ab2ea0dca43f5131e456f45bc9f8c1bed 19-Apr-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add Thumb breakpoint support

Extend the breakpoint insertion and catching functions to support Thumb
code.

As breakpoints are no longer of a fixed size, the flush_insns macro
is modified to take a size argument instead of an instruction count.

Note, we need both 16- and 32-bit Thumb breakpoints, because if we
were to use a 16-bit breakpoint to replace a 32-bit instruction which
was in an IT block, and the condition check failed, then the breakpoint
may not fire (it's unpredictable behaviour) and the CPU could then try
and execute the second half of the 32-bit Thumb instruction.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
2437170710c4a3dee137a65623960aa7ac82a32e 19-Apr-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add Thumb instruction decoding stubs

Extend arch_prepare_kprobe to support probing of Thumb code. For
the actual decoding of Thumb instructions, stub functions are
added which currently just reject the probe.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
aea490299f7f0412f884a4895bc96211d8d8dbaf 07-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Make str_pc_offset a constant on ARMv7

The str_pc_offset value is architecturally defined on ARMv7 onwards so
we can make it a compile time constant. This means on Thumb kernels the
runtime checking code isn't needed, which saves us from having to fix it
to work for Thumb.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
6c8df3300f60cae54aeb2a6dda8efe7ffe16a322 07-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Move find_str_pc_offset into kprobes-common.c

Move str_pc_offset into kprobes-common.c as it will be needed by common
code later.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
1b59d874660be7f790861ad849858cc009089515 06-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Move is_writeback define to header file.

This will be used later in other files.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
0ab4c02ddae2e1d32d686a7773608f6c44fb2a83 06-Jul-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Add kprobes-common.c

This file will contain the instruction decoding and emulation code
which is common to both ARM and Thumb instruction sets.

For now, we will just move over condition_checks from kprobes-arm.c
This table is also renamed to kprobe_condition_checks to avoid polluting
the public namespace with a too generic name.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
221bf15ffd2ad6cdc624aa4274f706499501c123 20-Apr-2011 Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> ARM: kprobes: Split out internal parts of kprobes.h

Later, we will be adding a considerable amount of internal
implementation definitions to kprobe header files and it would be good
to have these in local header file along side the source code, rather
than pollute the existing header which is include by all users of
kprobes.

To this end, we add arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.h and move into this the
existing internal defintions from arch/arm/include/asm/kprobes.h

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>