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    powerpc/kprobes: Implement Optprobes · 51c9c084
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    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: default avatarAnju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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