[PATCH 0/2] riscv: kprobes: simulate nop and c.nop instructions
Xiaofeng Yuan
yuanxiaofeng at eswincomputing.com
Wed Aug 19 03:14:17 PDT 2026
nop and c.nop have no architectural effect, so handling them through
an out-of-line instruction slot and single-stepping is pure overhead.
This series simulates them directly in the breakpoint handler by
advancing the program counter, following the approach already used on
arm64, and extends the RISC-V kprobes KUnit test to cover both paths.
Patch 1 adds the simulation. Patch 2 extends the KUnit test with
test_kprobes_nop and test_kprobes_c_nop.
Verified by cross-compiling for RISC-V and running the kprobes KUnit
test in QEMU (ok 1 kprobes_riscv).
Xiaofeng Yuan (2):
riscv: kprobes: simulate nop and c.nop instructions
riscv: kprobes: add nop and c.nop to the KUnit test
arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 11 ++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c | 6 +++++
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c | 14 ++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.h | 2 ++
.../kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
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2.43.0
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