arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
authorSandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:35:53 +0000 (12:35 -0400)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:03:22 +0000 (15:03 +0100)
commitfcfd708b8cf86b8c1ca6ce014d50287f61c0eb88
treeaf73c37b2b2fbbce3af32408eed8d8a0b19072b5
parentda6a91252ad98d49b49e83b76c1f032cdf6e5258
arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)

The pre-handler of this special 'trampoline' kprobe executes the return
probe handler functions and restores original return address in ELR_EL1.
This way the saved pt_regs still hold the original register context to be
carried back to the probed kernel function.

Signed-off-by: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/Kconfig
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c