From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>,
Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] kprobes: Use text_alloc() and text_free()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:35:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200728223545.ce4ff78cac73b571a27bb357@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXGJ_7mUtFHWsLaBj-MSK_VxpBet=wi1Z7frkKRVEgozpQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:56:43 +0300
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 11:17, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Masami or Peter should correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me
> > > that the way kprobes uses these pages does not require them to be in
> > > relative branching range of the core kernel on any architecture, given
> > > that they are populated with individual instruction opcodes that are
> > > executed in single step mode, and relative branches are emulated (when
> > > needed)
> >
> > Actually, x86 and arm has the "relative branching range" requirements
> > for the jump optimized kprobes. For the other architectures, I think
> > we don't need it. Only executable text buffer is needed.
> >
>
> Thanks for the explanation. Today, arm64 uses the definition below.
>
> void *alloc_insn_page(void)
> {
> return __vmalloc_node_range(PAGE_SIZE, 1, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
> GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_ROX, VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS,
> NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
> }
>
> Do you think we could use that as the generic implementation if we use
> MODULES_START/_END as the allocation window?
Yes, but for the generic implementation, we don't need to consider the
relative branching range since we can override it for x86 and arm.
(and that will be almost same as module_alloc() default code)
BTW, is PAGE_KERNEL_ROX flag available generically?
Thank you,
--
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-28 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-24 5:05 [PATCH v5 0/6] arch/x86: kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 5:05 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] kprobes: Remove dependency to the module_mutex Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-25 2:36 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-25 3:01 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-25 10:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-28 7:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-08-17 21:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 10:22 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-25 2:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 14:46 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-25 2:48 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 5:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] vmalloc: Add text_alloc() and text_free() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 10:22 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-25 2:20 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 5:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] arch/x86: Implement " Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 9:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-25 2:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 5:05 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] arch/x86: kprobes: Use " Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 5:05 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] " Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-24 12:16 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-25 3:19 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] kprobes: Use text_alloc() and text_free()] Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-25 3:16 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] kprobes: Use text_alloc() and text_free() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-26 8:14 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-26 16:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-28 8:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-28 10:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-28 13:35 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2020-07-28 17:51 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-29 1:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-29 6:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-30 1:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-08-18 5:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-08-18 11:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-08-18 16:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-08-19 6:47 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-08-19 21:07 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 10:27 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-24 14:57 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-24 23:38 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 5:05 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] kprobes: Remove CONFIG_MODULES dependency Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 7:01 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] arch/x86: kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-24 10:26 ` Mike Rapoport
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