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| author | Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-03-30 23:56:31 +0530 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-03-31 11:50:01 +0200 |
| commit | d4b3b6384f98f8692ad0209891ccdbc7e78bbefe (patch) | |
| tree | 29c703af306a3b0e42d7ee3bdfce58db78d702b7 /include/linux/mm_types.h | |
| parent | 0326f5a94ddea33fa331b2519f4172f4fb387baa (diff) | |
uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
Uprobes executes the original instruction at a probed location
out of line. For this, we allocate a page (per mm) upon the
first uprobe hit, in the process user address space, divide it
into slots that are used to store the actual instructions to be
singlestepped. These slots are known as xol (execution out of
line) slots.
Care is taken to ensure that the allocation is in an unmapped
area as close to the top of the user address space as possible,
with appropriate permission settings to keep selinux like
frameworks happy.
Upon a uprobe hit, a free slot is acquired, and is released
after the singlestep completes.
Lots of improvements courtesy suggestions/inputs from Peter and
Oleg.
[ Folded a fix for build issue on powerpc fixed and reported by
Stephen Rothwell. ]
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120330182631.10018.48175.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 3cc3062b3767..26574c726121 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/completion.h> #include <linux/cpumask.h> #include <linux/page-debug-flags.h> +#include <linux/uprobes.h> #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/mmu.h> @@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ struct mm_struct { #ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK struct cpumask cpumask_allocation; #endif + struct uprobes_state uprobes_state; }; static inline void mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm) |