On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 08:05:52AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Use text_alloc() and text_free() instead of module_alloc() and
> module_memfree() when an arch provides them.
>
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> kernel/kprobes.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 4e46d96d4e16..611fcda9f6bf 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> #include <asm/errno.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>
> #define KPROBE_HASH_BITS 6
> #define KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE (1 << KPROBE_HASH_BITS)
> @@ -111,12 +112,20 @@ enum kprobe_slot_state {
>
> void __weak *alloc_insn_page(void)
> {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC
> + return text_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
> +#else
> return module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
> +#endif
> }
>
> void __weak free_insn_page(void *page)
> {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC
> + text_free(page);
> +#else
> module_memfree(page);
> +#endif
> }
Both alloc_insn_page() and free_insn_page() are __weak and can be simple
overriden in arch/x86 code.
> struct kprobe_insn_cache kprobe_insn_slots = {
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
