This will be used by BPF jit compiler to dump JITed binary to a RX huge
page, and thus allow multiple BPF programs sharing the a huge (2MB) page.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h
index b7421780e4e9..4cc18ba1b75e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ extern void text_poke_early(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
extern void *text_poke(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
extern void text_poke_sync(void);
extern void *text_poke_kgdb(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
+extern void *text_poke_copy(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
extern int poke_int3_handler(struct pt_regs *regs);
extern void text_poke_bp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, const void *emulate);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 5007c3ffe96f..018b61febf0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -1102,6 +1102,40 @@ void *text_poke_kgdb(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
return __text_poke(addr, opcode, len);
}
+/**
+ * text_poke_copy - Copy instructions into (an unused part of) RX memory
+ * @addr: address to modify
+ * @opcode: source of the copy
+ * @len: length to copy, could be more than 2x PAGE_SIZE
+ *
+ * Not safe against concurrent execution; useful for JITs to dump
+ * new code blocks into unused regions of RX memory. Can be used in
+ * conjunction with synchronize_rcu_tasks() to wait for existing
+ * execution to quiesce after having made sure no existing functions
+ * pointers are live.
+ */
+void *text_poke_copy(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
+{
+ unsigned long start = (unsigned long)addr;
+ size_t patched = 0;
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(core_kernel_text(start)))
+ return NULL;
+
+ mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
+ while (patched < len) {
+ unsigned long ptr = start + patched;
+ size_t s;
+
+ s = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE * 2 - offset_in_page(ptr), len - patched);
+
+ __text_poke((void *)ptr, opcode + patched, s);
+ patched += s;
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
+ return addr;
+}
+
static void do_sync_core(void *info)
{
sync_core();
--
2.30.2
