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Record (single instruction) changes to the kernel text (i.e. self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like Intel PT and ARM CoreSight. A copy of the running kernel code is needed as a reference point (e.g. from /proc/kcore). The text poke event records the old bytes and the new bytes so that the event can be processed forwards or backwards. The basic problem is recording the modified instruction in an unambiguous manner given SMP instruction cache (in)coherence. That is, when modifying an instruction concurrently any solution with one or multiple timestamps is not sufficient: CPU0 CPU1 0 1 write insn A 2 execute insn A 3 sync-I$ 4 Due to I$, CPU1 might execute either the old or new A. No matter where we record tracepoints on CPU0, one simply cannot tell what CPU1 will have observed, except that at 0 it must be the old one and at 4 it must be the new one. To solve this, take inspiration from x86 text poking, which has to solve this exact problem due to variable length instruction encoding and I-fetch windows. 1) overwrite the instruction with a breakpoint and sync I$ This guarantees that that code flow will never hit the target instruction anymore, on any CPU (or rather, it will cause an exception). 2) issue the TEXT_POKE event 3) overwrite the breakpoint with the new instruction and sync I$ Now we know that any execution after the TEXT_POKE event will either observe the breakpoint (and hit the exception) or the new instruction. So by guarding the TEXT_POKE event with an exception on either side; we can now tell, without doubt, which instruction another CPU will have observed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512121922.8997-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.