[PATCH] ARM: kprobes: work around build errors

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Oct 8 11:07:50 EDT 2011


I got a few build errors for kprobes playing with randconfig on the
latest kernel. While this patch manages to avoid these errors, I'm
pretty sure that it is not the ideal solution.

The errors I got in arm are while building for ARMv6 with
the arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-4.6 provided by Linaro, which
results in these messages:

/tmp/ccGpftnj.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:22066: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `mls r0,r1,r2,r3'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:22099: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `mlshi r7,r8,r9,r10'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:22128: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `mls lr,r1,r2,r13'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:23781: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `strexd r0,r2,r3,[sp]'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:23802: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `ldrexd r2,r3,[sp]'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:23823: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `strexb r0,r2,[sp]'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:23844: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `ldrexb r2,[sp]'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:23865: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `strexh r0,r2,[sp]'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:23886: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `ldrexh r2,[sp]'
/tmp/ccGpftnj.s:25836: Warning: base register written back, and overlaps second transfer register

The errors for the thumb variant are using the same tool
chain, but obviously in v7 thumb2 mode. The error I got
is

/tmp/cczp95OW.s:18721: Error: offset out of range

Reducing the amount of padding in the "TEST_BF_X("bpl.w 2f",0x1000)"
test case resolves this, and I experimentally found 0xe20 to be the
maximum value in this location, but that is different if I change the
surrounding code. This one is much harder to reproduce and I can
provide the configuration file I used if that helps.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-arm.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-arm.c
index fc82de8..ba9c600 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-arm.c
@@ -367,9 +367,11 @@ void kprobe_arm_test_cases(void)
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word 0xe0500090 @ undef")
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word 0xe05fff9f @ undef")
 
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
 	TEST_RRR(  "mls		r0, r",1, VAL1,", r",2, VAL2,", r",3,  VAL3,"")
 	TEST_RRR(  "mlshi	r7, r",8, VAL3,", r",9, VAL1,", r",10, VAL2,"")
 	TEST_RR(   "mls		lr, r",1, VAL2,", r",2, VAL3,", r13")
+#endif
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word 0xe06f3291 @ mls pc, r1, r2, r3")
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word 0xe060329f @ mls r0, pc, r2, r3")
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word 0xe0603f91 @ mls r0, r1, pc, r3")
@@ -447,7 +449,7 @@ void kprobe_arm_test_cases(void)
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word	0xe1500090") /* Unallocated space */
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word	0xe1600090") /* Unallocated space */
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED(".word	0xe1700090") /* Unallocated space */
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED("ldrex	r2, [sp]")
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED("strexd	r0, r2, r3, [sp]")
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED("ldrexd	r2, r3, [sp]")
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-thumb.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-thumb.c
index 5e726c3..bcf5e6b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-thumb.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-thumb.c
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ CONDITION_INSTRUCTIONS(22,
 	TEST_BB("bne.w	2b")
 	TEST_BF("bgt.w	2f")
 	TEST_BB("blt.w	2b")
-	TEST_BF_X("bpl.w	2f",0x1000)
+	TEST_BF_X("bpl.w	2f",0xe20)
 )
 
 	TEST_UNSUPPORTED("msr	cpsr, r0")



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