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<title>ARM: kprobes: Fix probing of conditionally executed instructions</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T03:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Medhurst</name>
<email>tixy@yxit.co.uk</email>
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<published>2011-04-06T10:17:09+00:00</published>
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When a kprobe is placed onto conditionally executed ARM instructions,
many of the emulation routines used to single step them produce corrupt
register results. Rather than fix all of these cases we modify the
framework which calls them to test the relevant condition flags and, if
the test fails, skip calling the emulation code.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@yxit.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
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When a kprobe is placed onto conditionally executed ARM instructions,
many of the emulation routines used to single step them produce corrupt
register results. Rather than fix all of these cases we modify the
framework which calls them to test the relevant condition flags and, if
the test fails, skip calling the emulation code.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@yxit.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh</title>
<updated>2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 6005/1: arm: kprobes: fix register corruption with jprobes</title>
<updated>2010-03-29T16:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mika Westerberg</name>
<email>mika.westerberg@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-29T05:59:16+00:00</published>
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Current implementation of jprobes allocates empty pt_regs from the
stack which is then passed to kprobe_handler() and eventually to
singlestep().  Now when instruction being simulated is STMFD (like
in normal function prologues without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER), stores
using SP actually write over top of the fabricated pt_regs
structure.

This can be reproduced for example by using LKDTM module:
    # modprobe lkdtm
    # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
    # echo PANIC &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/INT_HW_IRQ_EN

after this, it fails with corrupted registers (before the requested crash would occur):

lkdtm: Crash point INT_HW_IRQ_EN of type PANIC hit, trigger in 9 rounds
lkdtm: Crash point INT_HW_IRQ_EN of type PANIC hit, trigger in 8 rounds
Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1]
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/serial8250.0/sleep_timeout
Modules linked in: lkdtm
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (2.6.34-rc2 #69)
PC is at irq_desc+0x1638/0xeeb0
LR is at 0x25
pc : [&lt;c050b428&gt;]    lr : [&lt;00000025&gt;]    psr: c80a0013
sp : ce94bd60  ip : c050b3e8  fp : a0000013
r10: c0aa453c  r9 : cf5d4000  r8 : ce9a1822
r7 : c050b424  r6 : 00000025  r5 : c039d8f8  r4 : c050b3e8
r3 : 00000001  r2 : cf4d0440  r1 : c039d8f8  r0 : 00000020
Flags: NZcv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
Control: 10c5387d  Table: 8e804019  DAC: 00000015
Process sh (pid: 496, stack limit = 0xce94a2e8)
Stack: (0xce94bd60 to 0xce94c000)
[...]
Code: 000002cd 00000000 00000000 00000001 (dead4ead)
---[ end trace 2b46d5f2b682f370 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

This patch allocates enough space (2 * sizeof(struct pt_regs)) from
the stack to prevent such corruption.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Current implementation of jprobes allocates empty pt_regs from the
stack which is then passed to kprobe_handler() and eventually to
singlestep().  Now when instruction being simulated is STMFD (like
in normal function prologues without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER), stores
using SP actually write over top of the fabricated pt_regs
structure.

This can be reproduced for example by using LKDTM module:
    # modprobe lkdtm
    # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
    # echo PANIC &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/INT_HW_IRQ_EN

after this, it fails with corrupted registers (before the requested crash would occur):

lkdtm: Crash point INT_HW_IRQ_EN of type PANIC hit, trigger in 9 rounds
lkdtm: Crash point INT_HW_IRQ_EN of type PANIC hit, trigger in 8 rounds
Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1]
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/serial8250.0/sleep_timeout
Modules linked in: lkdtm
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (2.6.34-rc2 #69)
PC is at irq_desc+0x1638/0xeeb0
LR is at 0x25
pc : [&lt;c050b428&gt;]    lr : [&lt;00000025&gt;]    psr: c80a0013
sp : ce94bd60  ip : c050b3e8  fp : a0000013
r10: c0aa453c  r9 : cf5d4000  r8 : ce9a1822
r7 : c050b424  r6 : 00000025  r5 : c039d8f8  r4 : c050b3e8
r3 : 00000001  r2 : cf4d0440  r1 : c039d8f8  r0 : 00000020
Flags: NZcv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
Control: 10c5387d  Table: 8e804019  DAC: 00000015
Process sh (pid: 496, stack limit = 0xce94a2e8)
Stack: (0xce94bd60 to 0xce94c000)
[...]
Code: 000002cd 00000000 00000000 00000001 (dead4ead)
---[ end trace 2b46d5f2b682f370 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

This patch allocates enough space (2 * sizeof(struct pt_regs)) from
the stack to prevent such corruption.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 5715/1: Make kprobes unregistration SMP safe</title>
<updated>2009-09-21T15:39:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Riss</name>
<email>frederic.riss@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-21T07:43:30+00:00</published>
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ARM kprobes use an illegal instruction to trigger kprobes. In the
current implementation, there's a race between the unregistration of a
kprobe and the illegal instruction exception handler if they run at the
same time on different cores.

When reading the value of the undefined instruction, the exception
handler might get the original legal instruction as just patched
concurrently by arch_disarm_kprobe(). When this happen the kprobe
handler won't run, and thus the exception handler will oops because it
believe it just hit an undefined instruction in kernel space.

The following patch synchronizes the code patching in the kprobes
unregistration using stop_machine and thus avoids the above race.

Signed-off-by: Frederic RISS &lt;frederic.riss@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ARM kprobes use an illegal instruction to trigger kprobes. In the
current implementation, there's a race between the unregistration of a
kprobe and the illegal instruction exception handler if they run at the
same time on different cores.

When reading the value of the undefined instruction, the exception
handler might get the original legal instruction as just patched
concurrently by arch_disarm_kprobe(). When this happen the kprobe
handler won't run, and thus the exception handler will oops because it
believe it just hit an undefined instruction in kernel space.

The following patch synchronizes the code patching in the kprobes
unregistration using stop_machine and thus avoids the above race.

Signed-off-by: Frederic RISS &lt;frederic.riss@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes: add kprobe_insn_mutex and cleanup arch_remove_kprobe()</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T23:59:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T22:41:50+00:00</published>
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Add kprobe_insn_mutex for protecting kprobe_insn_pages hlist, and remove
kprobe_mutex from architecture dependent code.

This allows us to call arch_remove_kprobe() (and free_insn_slot) while
holding kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add kprobe_insn_mutex for protecting kprobe_insn_pages hlist, and remove
kprobe_mutex from architecture dependent code.

This allows us to call arch_remove_kprobe() (and free_insn_slot) while
holding kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[ARM] 5206/1: remove kprobe_trap_handler() hack</title>
<updated>2008-09-01T11:06:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nico@cam.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-19T03:15:23+00:00</published>
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As mentioned in commit 796969104cab0d454dbc792ad0d12a4f365a8564,
and because of commit b03a5b7559563dafdbe52f8b5d8e453a914db941,
the direct calling of kprobe_trap_handler() can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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As mentioned in commit 796969104cab0d454dbc792ad0d12a4f365a8564,
and because of commit b03a5b7559563dafdbe52f8b5d8e453a914db941,
the direct calling of kprobe_trap_handler() can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed locking</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivasa D S</name>
<email>srinivasa@in.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:46:04+00:00</published>
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Currently list of kretprobe instances are stored in kretprobe object (as
used_instances,free_instances) and in kretprobe hash table.  We have one
global kretprobe lock to serialise the access to these lists.  This causes
only one kretprobe handler to execute at a time.  Hence affects system
performance, particularly on SMP systems and when return probe is set on
lot of functions (like on all systemcalls).

Solution proposed here gives fine-grain locks that performs better on SMP
system compared to present kretprobe implementation.

Solution:

 1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances
    present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table.  We will have
    two locks, one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another
    lock for kretporbe object.

 2) We hold lock present in kretprobe object while we modify kretprobe
    instance in kretprobe object and we hold per-hash-list lock while
    modifying kretprobe instances present in that hash list.  To prevent
    deadlock, we never grab a per-hash-list lock while holding a kretprobe
    lock.

 3) We can remove used_instances from struct kretprobe, as we can
    track used instances of kretprobe instances using kretprobe hash
    table.

Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8") on a 8-way ppc64 system
with return probes set on all systemcalls looks like this.

cacheline              non-cacheline             Un-patched kernel
aligned patch 	       aligned patch
===============================================================================
real    9m46.784s       9m54.412s                  10m2.450s
user    40m5.715s       40m7.142s                  40m4.273s
sys     2m57.754s       2m58.583s                  3m17.430s
===========================================================

Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8) on the same system, when
kernel is not probed.
=========================
real    9m26.389s
user    40m8.775s
sys     2m7.283s
=========================

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS &lt;srinivasa@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently list of kretprobe instances are stored in kretprobe object (as
used_instances,free_instances) and in kretprobe hash table.  We have one
global kretprobe lock to serialise the access to these lists.  This causes
only one kretprobe handler to execute at a time.  Hence affects system
performance, particularly on SMP systems and when return probe is set on
lot of functions (like on all systemcalls).

Solution proposed here gives fine-grain locks that performs better on SMP
system compared to present kretprobe implementation.

Solution:

 1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances
    present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table.  We will have
    two locks, one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another
    lock for kretporbe object.

 2) We hold lock present in kretprobe object while we modify kretprobe
    instance in kretprobe object and we hold per-hash-list lock while
    modifying kretprobe instances present in that hash list.  To prevent
    deadlock, we never grab a per-hash-list lock while holding a kretprobe
    lock.

 3) We can remove used_instances from struct kretprobe, as we can
    track used instances of kretprobe instances using kretprobe hash
    table.

Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8") on a 8-way ppc64 system
with return probes set on all systemcalls looks like this.

cacheline              non-cacheline             Un-patched kernel
aligned patch 	       aligned patch
===============================================================================
real    9m46.784s       9m54.412s                  10m2.450s
user    40m5.715s       40m7.142s                  40m4.273s
sys     2m57.754s       2m58.583s                  3m17.430s
===========================================================

Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8) on the same system, when
kernel is not probed.
=========================
real    9m26.389s
user    40m8.775s
sys     2m7.283s
=========================

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS &lt;srinivasa@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: export kretprobe_trampoline for function tracer</title>
<updated>2008-06-02T11:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Abhishek Sagar</name>
<email>sagar.abhishek@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-31T08:54:02+00:00</published>
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Follow suit from kprobe implementations on other archs and make kretprobe_trampoline non-static. Ftrace implmentation (more specifically, kernel/trace/trace.c) requires access to it (see-&gt; http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/27/1955234).

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar &lt;sagar.abhishek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Follow suit from kprobe implementations on other archs and make kretprobe_trampoline non-static. Ftrace implmentation (more specifically, kernel/trace/trace.c) requires access to it (see-&gt; http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/27/1955234).

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar &lt;sagar.abhishek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes/arm: fix cache flush address for instruction stub</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T19:54:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nico@cam.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-23T22:44:15+00:00</published>
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It is more useful to flush the cache with the actual buffer address
rather than the address containing a pointer to the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
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It is more useful to flush the cache with the actual buffer address
rather than the address containing a pointer to the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
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