[PATCH v2 00/13] Implement livepatch on PPC32 and more

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Tue Dec 21 03:37:58 AEDT 2021


This series implements livepatch on PPC32 and implements
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS to simplify ftracing.

v2:
- Fix problem with strict modules RWX
- Convert powerpc to CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
- Convert function graph tracing to C
- Refactor PPC32 versus PPC64

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>

Christophe Leroy (13):
  livepatch: Fix build failure on 32 bits processors
  tracing: Fix selftest config check for function graph start up test
  powerpc/module_32: Fix livepatching for RO modules
  powerpc/ftrace: Add support for livepatch to PPC32
  powerpc/ftrace: Don't save again LR in ftrace_regs_caller() on PPC32
  powerpc/ftrace: Simplify PPC32's return_to_handler()
  powerpc/ftrace: Prepare PPC32's ftrace_caller() for
    CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
  powerpc/ftrace: Prepare PPC64's ftrace_caller() for
    CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
  powerpc/ftrace: Implement CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
  powerpc/ftrace: Refactor ftrace_{en/dis}able_ftrace_graph_caller
  powerpc/ftrace: directly call of function graph tracer by ftrace
    caller
  powerpc/ftrace: Prepare ftrace_64_mprofile.S for reuse by PPC32
  powerpc/ftrace: Remove ftrace_32.S

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                          |   7 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h             |  62 +++---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h          |  12 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h        |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c             |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c               |  44 +++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/Makefile            |   7 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c            |  32 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S         | 187 ------------------
 .../trace/{ftrace_64.S => ftrace_low.S}       |  14 ++
 ...ftrace_64_mprofile.S => ftrace_mprofile.S} | 158 +++++++--------
 kernel/livepatch/core.c                       |   4 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c                 |   6 +-
 13 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S
 rename arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/{ftrace_64.S => ftrace_low.S} (85%)
 rename arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/{ftrace_64_mprofile.S => ftrace_mprofile.S} (75%)

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