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2021-12-09powerpc/inst: Define ppc_inst_t as u32 on PPC32Christophe Leroy1-6/+2
Unlike PPC64 ABI, PPC32 uses the stack to pass a parameter defined as a struct, even when the struct has a single simple element. To avoid that, define ppc_inst_t as u32 on PPC32. Keep it as 'struct ppc_inst' when __CHECKER__ is defined so that sparse can perform type checking. Also revert commit 511eea5e2ccd ("powerpc/kprobes: Fix Oops by passing ppc_inst as a pointer to emulate_step() on ppc32") as now the instruction to be emulated is passed as a register to emulate_step(). Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c6d0c46f598f76ad0b0a88bc0d84773bd921b17c.1638208156.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-12-09powerpc/inst: Define ppc_inst_tChristophe Leroy1-2/+2
In order to stop using 'struct ppc_inst' on PPC32, define a ppc_inst_t typedef. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe5baa2c66fea9db05a8b300b3e8d2880a42596c.1638208156.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-09-30kprobes: treewide: Make it harder to refer kretprobe_trampoline directlyMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
Since now there is kretprobe_trampoline_addr() for referring the address of kretprobe trampoline code, we don't need to access kretprobe_trampoline directly. Make it harder to refer by renaming it to __kretprobe_trampoline(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163045446.489837.14510577516938803097.stgit@devnote2 Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-09-30kprobes: treewide: Use 'kprobe_opcode_t *' for the code address in get_optimized_kprobe()Masami Hiramatsu1-3/+3
Since get_optimized_kprobe() is only used inside kprobes, it doesn't need to use 'unsigned long' type for 'addr' parameter. Make it use 'kprobe_opcode_t *' for the 'addr' parameter and subsequent call of arch_within_optimized_kprobe() also should use 'kprobe_opcode_t *'. Note that MAX_OPTIMIZED_LENGTH and RELATIVEJUMP_SIZE are defined by byte-size, but the size of 'kprobe_opcode_t' depends on the architecture. Therefore, we must be careful when calculating addresses using those macros. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163040680.489837.12133032364499833736.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-25powerpc/kprobes: Fix Oops by passing ppc_inst as a pointer to emulate_step() on ppc32Naveen N. Rao1-2/+6
Trying to use a kprobe on ppc32 results in the below splat: BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x7c0802a6 Faulting instruction address: 0xc002e9f0 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] BE PAGE_SIZE=4K PowerPC 44x Platform Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 89 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1-01824-g3a81c0495fdb #7 NIP: c002e9f0 LR: c0011858 CTR: 00008a47 REGS: c292fd50 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.13.0-rc1-01824-g3a81c0495fdb) MSR: 00009000 <EE,ME> CR: 24002002 XER: 20000000 DEAR: 7c0802a6 ESR: 00000000 <snip> NIP [c002e9f0] emulate_step+0x28/0x324 LR [c0011858] optinsn_slot+0x128/0x10000 Call Trace: opt_pre_handler+0x7c/0xb4 (unreliable) optinsn_slot+0x128/0x10000 ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x28 The offending instruction is: 81 24 00 00 lwz r9,0(r4) Here, we are trying to load the second argument to emulate_step(): struct ppc_inst, which is the instruction to be emulated. On ppc64, structures are passed in registers when passed by value. However, per the ppc32 ABI, structures are always passed to functions as pointers. This isn't being adhered to when setting up the call to emulate_step() in the optprobe trampoline. Fix the same. Fixes: eacf4c0202654a ("powerpc: Enable OPTPROBES on PPC32") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bdc8cbc9a95d0779e27c9ddbf42b40f51f883c0.1624425798.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-06-25powerpc/64s: avoid reloading (H)SRR registers if they are still validNicholas Piggin1-1/+1
When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers when returning from interrupt. Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context switching (which changes the return address and MSR). This improves the performance of interrupt returns. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com
2021-06-17powerpc/optprobes: use PPC_RAW_ macrosChristophe Leroy1-32/+7
Use PPC_RAW_ macros to simplify the code. And use PPC_LO/PPC_HI instead of IMM_L/IMM_H which are for internal use inside ppc-opcode.h Those macros are self explanatory, comments can go as well. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5a167b8ba4d33a5c09cd504f0c862e25ffe85459.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-06-17powerpc/optprobes: Compact code source a bit.Christophe Leroy1-22/+11
Now that lines can be up to 100 chars long, minimise the amount of split lines to increase readability. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8ebbd977ea8cf8d706d82458f2a21acd44562a99.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-06-17powerpc/optprobes: Minimise castsChristophe Leroy1-12/+11
nip is already an unsigned long, no cast needed. op_callback_addr and emulate_step_addr are kprobe_opcode_t *. There value is obtained with ppc_kallsyms_lookup_name() which returns 'unsigned long', and there values are used create_branch() which expects 'unsigned long'. So change them to 'unsigned long' to avoid casting them back and forth. can_optimize() used p->addr several times as 'unsigned long'. Use a local 'unsigned long' variable and avoid casting multiple times. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e03192a6d4123242a275e71ce2ba0bb4d90700c1.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-06-17powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction locationChristophe Leroy1-27/+18
'struct ppc_inst' is an internal representation of an instruction, but in-memory instructions are and will remain a table of 'u32' forever. Replace all 'struct ppc_inst *' used for locating an instruction in memory by 'u32 *'. This removes a lot of undue casts to 'struct ppc_inst *'. It also helps locating ab-use of 'struct ppc_inst' dereference. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> [mpe: Fix ppc_inst_next(), use u32 instead of unsigned int] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7062722b087228e42cbd896e39bfdf526d6a340a.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-05-23powerpc/kprobes: Replace ppc_optinsn by common optinsnChristophe Leroy1-18/+5
Commit 51c9c0843993 ("powerpc/kprobes: Implement Optprobes") implemented a powerpc specific version of optinsn in order to workaround the 32Mb limitation for direct branches. Instead of implementing a dedicated powerpc version, use the common optinsn and override the allocation and freeing functions. This also indirectly remove the CLANG warning about is_kprobe_ppc_optinsn_slot() not being use, and the powerpc will now benefit from commit 5b485629ba0d ("kprobes, extable: Identify kprobes trampolines as kernel text area") Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ec5e85f9f9abcfecc959a03495f4a7858eb4d203.1620896780.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-04-21powerpc: Enable OPTPROBES on PPC32Christophe Leroy1-3/+21
For that, create a 32 bits version of patch_imm64_load_insns() and create a patch_imm_load_insns() which calls patch_imm32_load_insns() on PPC32 and patch_imm64_load_insns() on PPC64. Adapt optprobes_head.S for PPC32. Use PPC_LL/PPC_STL macros instead of raw ld/std, opt out things linked to paca and use stmw/lmw to save/restore registers. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bad58c66859b2a475c0ad516b53164ae3b4853cd.1618927318.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-04-21powerpc/inst: ppc_inst_as_u64() becomes ppc_inst_as_ulong()Christophe Leroy1-1/+1
In order to simplify use on PPC32, change ppc_inst_as_u64() into ppc_inst_as_ulong() that returns the 32 bits instruction on PPC32. Will be used when porting OPTPROBES to PPC32. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/22cadf29620664b600b82026d2a72b8b23351777.1618927318.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-01-30powerpc/optprobes: Make patch_imm64_load_insns() staticCédric Le Goater1-1/+1
patch_imm64_load_insns() is only used locally in arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe() and does not need to be external. It fixes this W=1 compile error : ../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:149:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘patch_imm64_load_insns’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes] 149 | void patch_imm64_load_insns(unsigned int val, kprobe_opcode_t *addr) Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210104143206.695198-12-clg@kaod.org
2021-01-30powerpc/optprobes: Remove unused routine patch_imm32_load_insns()Cédric Le Goater1-19/+0
Commit 650b55b707fd ("powerpc: Add prefixed instructions to instruction data type") removed the use of patch_imm32_load_insns(). Clean it up to fix this W=1 compile error : ../arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:149:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘patch_imm32_load_insns’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes] 149 | void patch_imm32_load_insns(unsigned int val, kprobe_opcode_t *addr) Fixes: 650b55b707fd ("powerpc: Add prefixed instructions to instruction data type") Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210104143206.695198-11-clg@kaod.org
2020-05-26powerpc: Add ppc_inst_as_u64()Michael Ellerman1-2/+1
The code patching code wants to get the value of a struct ppc_inst as a u64 when the instruction is prefixed, so we can pass the u64 down to __put_user_asm() and write it with a single store. The optprobes code wants to load a struct ppc_inst as an immediate into a register so it is useful to have it as a u64 to use the existing helper function. Currently this is a bit awkward because the value differs based on the CPU endianness, so add a helper to do the conversion. This fixes the usage in arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe() which was previously incorrect on big endian. Fixes: 650b55b707fd ("powerpc: Add prefixed instructions to instruction data type") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Tested-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526072630.2487363-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2020-05-19powerpc: Add prefixed instructions to instruction data typeJordan Niethe1-2/+4
For powerpc64, redefine the ppc_inst type so both word and prefixed instructions can be represented. On powerpc32 the type will remain the same. Update places which had assumed instructions to be 4 bytes long. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> [mpe: Rework the get_user_inst() macros to be parameterised, and don't assign to the dest if an error occurred. Use CONFIG_PPC64 not __powerpc64__ in a few places. Address other comments from Christophe. Fix some sparse complaints.] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-24-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc/optprobes: Add register argument to patch_imm64_load_insns()Jordan Niethe1-17/+17
Currently patch_imm32_load_insns() is used to load an instruction to r4 to be emulated by emulate_step(). For prefixed instructions we would like to be able to load a 64bit immediate to r4. To prepare for this make patch_imm64_load_insns() take an argument that decides which register to load an immediate to - rather than hardcoding r3. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200516115449.4168796-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2020-05-19powerpc: Use a function for reading instructionsJordan Niethe1-2/+2
Prefixed instructions will mean there are instructions of different length. As a result dereferencing a pointer to an instruction will not necessarily give the desired result. Introduce a function for reading instructions from memory into the instruction data type. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-13-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Use a datatype for instructionsJordan Niethe1-27/+37
Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. However, ISA v3.1 introduces some changes to instructions that mean this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed Instructions. A prefixed instruction is made up of a word prefix followed by a word suffix to make an 8 byte double word instruction. No matter the endianness of the system the prefix always comes first. Prefixed instructions are only planned for powerpc64. Introduce a ppc_inst type to represent both prefixed and word instructions on powerpc64 while keeping it possible to exclusively have word instructions on powerpc32. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> [mpe: Fix compile error in emulate_spe()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-12-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Use a macro for creating instructions from u32sJordan Niethe1-15/+17
In preparation for instructions having a more complex data type start using a macro, ppc_inst(), for making an instruction out of a u32. A macro is used so that instructions can be used as initializer elements. Currently this does nothing, but it will allow for creating a data type that can represent prefixed instructions. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> [mpe: Change include guard to _ASM_POWERPC_INST_H] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-7-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Change calling convention for create_branch() et. al.Jordan Niethe1-10/+14
create_branch(), create_cond_branch() and translate_branch() return the instruction that they create, or return 0 to signal an error. Separate these concerns in preparation for an instruction type that is not just an unsigned int. Fill the created instruction to a pointer passed as the first parameter to the function and use a non-zero return value to signify an error. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-6-jniethe5@gmail.com
2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152Thomas Gleixner1-5/+1
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-12powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftraceNaveen N. Rao1-10/+0
Per Documentation/kprobes.txt, we don't necessarily need to disable interrupts before invoking the kprobe handlers. Masami submitted similar changes for x86 via commit a19b2e3d783964 ("kprobes/x86: Remove IRQ disabling from ftrace-based/optimized kprobes"). Do the same for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-11-12powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobesNaveen N. Rao1-2/+3
Per Documentation/kprobes.txt, probe handlers need to be invoked with preemption disabled. Update optimized_callback() to do so. Also move get_kprobe_ctlblk() invocation post preemption disable, since it accesses pre-cpu data. This was not an issue so far since optprobes wasn't selected if CONFIG_PREEMPT was enabled. Commit a30b85df7d599f ("kprobes: Use synchronize_rcu_tasks() for optprobe with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y") changes this. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-09-20powerpc/kprobes: Update optprobes to use emulate_update_regs()Naveen N. Rao1-1/+3
Optprobes depended on an updated regs->nip from analyse_instr() to identify the location to branch back from the optprobes trampoline. However, since commit 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs"), analyse_instr() doesn't update the registers anymore. Due to this, we end up branching back from the optprobes trampoline to the same branch into the trampoline resulting in a loop. Fix this by calling out to emulate_update_regs() before using the nip. Additionally, explicitly compare the return value from analyse_instr() to 1, rather than just checking for !0 so as to guard against any future changes to analyse_instr() that may result in -1 being returned in more scenarios. Fixes: 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs") Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-07-03powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction()Balbir Singh1-21/+32
So that we can implement STRICT_RWX, use patch_instruction() in optprobes. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-24powerpc: Introduce a new helper to obtain function entry pointsNaveen N. Rao1-3/+3
kprobe_lookup_name() is specific to the kprobe subsystem and may not always return the function entry point (in a subsequent patch for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE). For looking up function entry points, introduce a separate helper and use it in optprobes.c Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-20powerpc/kprobes: Fix handling of function offsets on ABIv2Naveen N. Rao1-2/+2
commit 239aeba76409 ("perf powerpc: Fix kprobe and kretprobe handling with kallsyms on ppc64le") changed how we use the offset field in struct kprobe on ABIv2. perf now offsets from the global entry point if an offset is specified and otherwise chooses the local entry point. Fix the same in kernel for kprobe API users. We do this by extending kprobe_lookup_name() to accept an additional parameter to indicate the offset specified with the kprobe registration. If offset is 0, we return the local function entry and return the global entry point otherwise. With: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # echo "p _do_fork" >> kprobe_events # echo "p _do_fork+0x10" >> kprobe_events before this patch: # cat ../kprobes/list c0000000000d0748 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED] c0000000000d0758 k _do_fork+0x18 [DISABLED] c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED] and after: # cat ../kprobes/list c0000000000d04c8 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED] c0000000000d04d0 k _do_fork+0x10 [DISABLED] c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED] Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-20kprobes: Convert kprobe_lookup_name() to a functionNaveen N. Rao1-2/+2
The macro is now pretty long and ugly on powerpc. In the light of further changes needed here, convert it to a __weak variant to be over-ridden with a nicer looking function. Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-02-10powerpc/kprobes: Optimize kprobe in kretprobe_trampoline()Anju T1-4/+3
Kprobe placed on the kretprobe_trampoline() during boot time can be optimized, since the instruction at probe point is a 'nop'. Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-02-10powerpc/kprobes: Implement OptprobesAnju T1-0/+348
Current infrastructure of kprobe uses the unconditional trap instruction to probe a running kernel. Optprobe allows kprobe to replace the trap with a branch instruction to a detour buffer. Detour buffer contains instructions to create an in memory pt_regs. Detour buffer also has a call to optimized_callback() which in turn call the pre_handler(). 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. To address the limitation of branch instruction in POWER architecture, detour buffer slot is allocated from a reserved area. For the time being, 64KB is reserved in memory for this purpose. Instructions which can be emulated using analyse_instr() are the candidates 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>