Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] arch/powerpc: Implement Optprobes

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Jan 30 2017 - 15:43:43 EST


Anju T Sudhakar <anju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Detour buffer contains instructions to create an in memory pt_regs.
> After the execution of the pre-handler, a call is made for instruction emulation.
> The NIP is determined in advanced through dummy instruction emulation and a branch
> instruction is created to the NIP at the end of the trampoline.
>
> Instruction slot for detour buffer is allocated from the reserved area.
> For the time being, 64KB is reserved in memory for this purpose.
>
> Instructions which can be emulated using analyse_instr() are suppliants
> for optimization. Before optimization ensure that the address range
> between the detour buffer allocated and the instruction being probed
> is within  32MB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../features/debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h | 24 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/sstep.h | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c | 331 +++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes_head.S | 135 +++++++++
> arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 21 ++
> 8 files changed, 514 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes_head.S

This breaks the pseries_defconfig (at least) build:

In file included from ../include/linux/kprobes.h:45:0,
from ../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:12:
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c: In function âarch_prepare_optimized_kprobeâ:
../arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:79:16: error: âMODULE_NAME_LENâ undeclared (first use in this function)
char dot_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN + 1 + KSYM_NAME_LEN]; \
^
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:230:2: note: in expansion of macro âkprobe_lookup_nameâ
kprobe_lookup_name("optimized_callback", op_callback_addr);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:79:16: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
char dot_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN + 1 + KSYM_NAME_LEN]; \
^
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:230:2: note: in expansion of macro âkprobe_lookup_nameâ
kprobe_lookup_name("optimized_callback", op_callback_addr);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:82:14: error: assignment discards âconstâ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
if ((modsym = strchr(name, ':')) != NULL) { \
^
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:230:2: note: in expansion of macro âkprobe_lookup_nameâ
kprobe_lookup_name("optimized_callback", op_callback_addr);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:79:7: error: unused variable âdot_nameâ [-Werror=unused-variable]
char dot_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN + 1 + KSYM_NAME_LEN]; \
^
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:230:2: note: in expansion of macro âkprobe_lookup_nameâ
kprobe_lookup_name("optimized_callback", op_callback_addr);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:82:14: error: assignment discards âconstâ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
if ((modsym = strchr(name, ':')) != NULL) { \
^
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:231:2: note: in expansion of macro âkprobe_lookup_nameâ
kprobe_lookup_name("emulate_step", emulate_step_addr);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:79:7: error: unused variable âdot_nameâ [-Werror=unused-variable]
char dot_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN + 1 + KSYM_NAME_LEN]; \
^
../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:231:2: note: in expansion of macro âkprobe_lookup_nameâ
kprobe_lookup_name("emulate_step", emulate_step_addr);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2


This may not be your bug, but your patch exposes it unfortunately.

cheers