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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-03-24 12:04:05 +0100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-04-14 07:48:06 +0200
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parentpowerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info (diff)
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powerpc/livepatch: Add live patching support on ppc64le
Add the kconfig logic & assembly support for handling live patched functions. This depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS, which in turn depends on the new -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI, which is only supported currently on ppc64le. Live patching is handled by a special ftrace handler. This means it runs from ftrace_caller(). The live patch handler modifies the NIP so as to redirect the return from ftrace_caller() to the new patched function. However there is one particularly tricky case we need to handle. If a function A calls another function B, and it is known at link time that they share the same TOC, then A will not save or restore its TOC, and will call the local entry point of B. When we live patch B, we replace it with a new function C, which may not have the same TOC as A. At live patch time it's too late to modify A to do the TOC save/restore, so the live patching code must interpose itself between A and C, and do the TOC save/restore that A omitted. An additionaly complication is that the livepatch code can not create a stack frame in order to save the TOC. That is because if C takes > 8 arguments, or is varargs, A will have written the arguments for C in A's stack frame. To solve this, we introduce a "livepatch stack" which grows upward from the base of the regular stack, and is used to store the TOC & LR when calling a live patched function. When the patched function returns, we retrieve the real LR & TOC from the livepatch stack, restore them, and pop the livepatch "stack frame". Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
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