[PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc/kprobes: More fixes

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Sep 22 19:10:23 AEST 2017


This is v2 of the patches posted at:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bc413d679c563d3ee338c318066777318577ab2.1505336870.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Changes:
- No changes in patch 1, 4 and 5.
- Comment updated in patch 2, as suggested by Masami.
- Patch 3 has changes to explicitly call out detection of jprobe in 
  ftrace_caller() and that this is only for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.

- Naveen

Naveen N. Rao (6):
  powerpc/kprobes: Some cosmetic updates to try_to_emulate()
  powerpc/kprobes: Do not suppress instruction emulation if a single run
    failed
  powerpc/kprobes: Clean up jprobe detection in livepatch handler
  powerpc/kprobes: Fix warnings from __this_cpu_read() on preempt
    kernels
  powerpc/jprobes: Disable preemption when triggered through ftrace
  powerpc/jprobes: Validate break handler invocation as being due to a
    jprobe_return()

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h             |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes-ftrace.c           | 30 ++++++++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c                  | 45 ++++++++++++++------------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_64_mprofile.S |  4 +--
 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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2.14.1



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