On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 07:00 +0000, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > On ia64 and ppc64, the function pointer does not point the > entry address of the function, but the address of function > discriptor (which contains the entry address and misc > data.) Since the kprobes passes the function pointer stored > by NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() to kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() for > initalizing its blacklist, it fails and reports many errors > as below. > > Failed to find blacklist 0001013168300000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013000f0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101315f70a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101324c80a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013063f0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101327800a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013277f0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101315a70a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013277e0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101305a20a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013277d0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 00010130bdc0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 00010130dc20a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101309a00a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013277c0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013277b0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013277a0a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101327790a000 > Failed to find blacklist 000101303140a000 > Failed to find blacklist 0001013a3280a000 > > To fix this bug, this introduces function_entry() macro to > retrieve the entry address from the given function pointer, > and uses for kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() while initializing > blacklist. > > Changes in v5: > - Use arch_deref_entry_point() instead of function_entry(). > > Changes in v4: > - Add kernel_text_address() check for verifying the address. > - Moved on the latest linus tree. > > Changes in v3: > - Fix a bug to get blacklist address based on function entry > instead of function descriptor. (Suzuki's work, Thanks!) > > Changes in V2: > - Use function_entry() macro when lookin up symbols instead > of storing it. > - Update for the latest -next. > > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (for powerpc) Ben, can you take this in your tree? cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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