[PATCH v2 3/4] uprobes/powerpc: Introduce routines for save/restorecontext

From: Suzuki K. Poulose
Date: Mon Dec 03 2012 - 10:09:37 EST


From: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx>

Introduce routines for saving and restoring the context
befre/after the single step. No functional changes involved.

These will be extended later to save/restore more info about
the process once we replace the ptrace helpers.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c
index bc77834..1a62353 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c
@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ int arch_uprobe_analyze_insn(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe,
return 0;
}

+static void uprobe_save_context_sstep(struct arch_uprobe_task *autask)
+{
+ autask->saved_trap_nr = current->thread.trap_nr;
+}
+
+static void uprobe_restore_context_sstep(struct arch_uprobe_task *autask)
+{
+ current->thread.trap_nr = autask->saved_trap_nr;
+}
+
/*
* arch_uprobe_pre_xol - prepare to execute out of line.
* @auprobe: the probepoint information.
@@ -61,7 +71,7 @@ int arch_uprobe_pre_xol(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct arch_uprobe_task *autask = &current->utask->autask;

- autask->saved_trap_nr = current->thread.trap_nr;
+ uprobe_save_context_sstep(autask);
current->thread.trap_nr = UPROBE_TRAP_NR;
regs->nip = current->utask->xol_vaddr;

@@ -111,7 +121,7 @@ int arch_uprobe_post_xol(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)

WARN_ON_ONCE(current->thread.trap_nr != UPROBE_TRAP_NR);

- current->thread.trap_nr = utask->autask.saved_trap_nr;
+ uprobe_restore_context_sstep(&utask->autask);

/*
* On powerpc, except for loads and stores, most instructions
@@ -164,7 +174,7 @@ void arch_uprobe_abort_xol(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct uprobe_task *utask = current->utask;

- current->thread.trap_nr = utask->autask.saved_trap_nr;
+ uprobe_restore_context_sstep(&utask->autask);
instruction_pointer_set(regs, utask->vaddr);

user_disable_single_step(current);

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