arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
authorSandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:35:51 +0000 (12:35 -0400)
committerAlex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:38:13 +0000 (15:38 +0800)
commit1f4a59d0e95a8b5a1a3e35080b4e6b579d6b2f52
treea4cb0c0c50fafd9d963912626e8c48404d5cd243
parent0fd3e813cb6339b1c4502c27f026e75b06a216ef
arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support

commit 39a67d49ba353630d144a8eb775500c041c89e7a upstream.

Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped
from a different memory location, e.g.: those instructions
that uses PC-relative addressing. In simulation, the behaviour
of the instruction is implemented using a copy of pt_regs.

The following instruction categories are simulated:
 - All branching instructions(conditional, register, and immediate)
 - Literal access instructions(load-literal, adr/adrp)

Conditional execution is limited to branching instructions in
ARM v8. If conditions at PSTATE do not match the condition fields
of opcode, the instruction is effectively NOP.

Thanks to Will Cohen for assorted suggested changes.

Signed-off-by: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: removed linux/module.h include]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/probes.h
arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/Makefile
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.h
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.h [new file with mode: 0644]