[PATCH] kprobes: Minor i386 changes required for porting kprobes to x86_64
- Kprobes structure has been modified to support copying of original instruction as required by the architecture. On x86_64 normal pages we get from kmalloc or vmalloc are not executable. Single-stepping an instruction on such a page yields an oops. So instead of storing the instruction copies in their respective kprobe objects, we allocate a page, map it executable, and store all the instruction copies there and store the pointer of the copied instruction in the specific kprobes object. - jprobe_return_end is moved into inline assembly to avoid compiler optimization. - arch_prepare_kprobe() now returns an integer,since arch_prepare_kprobe() might fail on other architectures. - added arch_remove_kprobe() routine, since other architectures requires it. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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