[PATCH 3/3] arm64/kprobe: Optimize the performance of patching single-step slot

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 09:02:20AM +0800, liaochang (A) wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2022/9/30 0:50, Catalin Marinas 写道:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:24:35AM +0800, Liao Chang wrote:
> >> Single-step slot would not be used until kprobe is enabled, that means
> >> no race condition occurs on it under SMP, hence it is safe to pacth ss
> >> slot without stopping machine.
> >>
> >> Since I and D caches are coherent within single-step slot from
> >> aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(), hence no need to do it again via
> >> flush_icache_range().
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> >> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat at kernel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1 at huawei.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
> >>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > What's your expectation with this series, should the arch maintainers
> > just pick the individual patches?
> 
> Yes, or should i split this series into individual patch?

No need to, I can pick the arm64 patch. If the other maintainers don't
merge the patches, you might want to post them again individually as to
avoid confusion.

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Catalin