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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC v2 0/6] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support
(2013/10/17 20:17), Sandeepa Prabhu wrote:
> This patchset adds support for kernel probes(kprobes), jump probes(jprobes)
> and return probes(kretprobes) support for ARM64.
>
> Kprobes mechanism make use of software breakpoint and single stepping
> support available in ARM v8 kernel.
>

Thank you! This looks much better for me now. ;)

> This patchset make use of (and dependant upon) dynamic kernel patching
> feature published in patch series: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/15/891
>
> changes: v1 -> v2
> 1. Implemented review comments on v1
> 2. Debug montior hooks implementation is changed to use rwlocks
> instead of rcu and spinlock.

Eventually, we'd better reconsider using rcu there, or prohibit probing
readlock related functions. For the first step, this will be good.

> 3. Enabled recursing in kprobes handler for kprobes re-enter support.
> 4. Re-split the patchset to seperate single-stepping, simulation and
> kretprobes features.
> 5. instruction simulation is made independent of 'struct kprobes'
> 6. Added 'Linaro Copyright' statements in new added files.
> 7. Used arm64 instead of aarch64 in file names and comments.
>
> Tested on ARM v8 fast model with sample modules from: samples/kprobes/
>
> Sandeepa Prabhu (6):
> arm64: support single-step and breakpoint handler hooks
> arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support
> arm64: Kprobes instruction simulation support
> arm64: Add kernel return probes support(kretprobes)
> arm64: Enable kprobes support for arm64 platform
> kprobes: Add cases for arm and arm64 in sample module
>
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +
> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 20 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h | 21 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kprobes.h | 60 +++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/probes.h | 50 +++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 6 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 2 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/condn-helpers.c | 120 ++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 86 +++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 2 +


> arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes-arm64.c | 313 +++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes-arm64.h | 30 ++

One comment, this name looks a bit wired. Since it seems that these are
for instruction decoding, can we merge it with probe-decode.h and
rename it as probe-decode.{h,c}? When we implement uprobes, we still
can expand it (add the decoding table for uprobes in the probe-decode.c).

> arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.c | 682 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.h | 30 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/probes-decode.h | 110 ++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/simulate-insn.c | 184 +++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/simulate-insn.h | 33 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
> samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c | 16 +
> 19 files changed, 1756 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

BTW, is there any public git repository which has this series?

Thank you again!

--
Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com




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