This patchset enables livepatch support on arm64. Livepatch was merged in v4.0, and allows replacying a function dynamically based on ftrace framework, but it also requires -mfentry option of gcc. Currently arm64 gcc doesn't support it, but by adding a helper function to ftrace, we will be able to support livepatch on arch's which don't support this option.
I submit this patchset as RFC since I'm not quite sure that I'm doing in the right way, or we should definitely support -fentry instead. Please note that I tested the feature only with livepatch-sample, and the code for DYNAMIC_TRACE_WITH_REGS is still rough-edged. To: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> To: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> To: Seth Jennings <sjenn...@redhat.com> To: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojt...@suse.cz> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> To: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> AKASHI Takahiro (4): ftrace: add a helper function for livepatch livepatch: adjust a patched function's address arm64: ftrace: add DYNAMIC_TRACE_WITH_REGS version arm64: add livepatch support arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h | 4 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/livepatch.h | 38 +++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c | 24 ++++++- arch/arm64/kernel/livepatch.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h | 5 ++ include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 + include/linux/livepatch.h | 2 + kernel/livepatch/core.c | 16 +++-- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 26 ++++++++ 12 files changed, 309 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/livepatch.h create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/livepatch.c -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
