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Message-ID: <20170209131414.098c848c@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 13:14:14 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Abel Vesa <abelvesa@...ux.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jjhiblot@...phandler.com,
pmladek@...e.com, robin.murphy@....com, zhouchengming1@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] arm: ftrace: Adds support for
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:06:44 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 12:13:22PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Then came along live kernel patching, which I believe this series is
> > trying to support. What is needed by pt_regs is a way to "hijack" the
> > function being called to instead call the patched function. That is,
> > ftrace is not being used for tracing, but in reality, being used to
> > modify the running kernel. It is being used to change what function
> > gets called. ftrace is just a hook for that mechanism.
>
> So, would I be correct to assume that the only parts of pt_regs that
> would be touched are those which contain arguments to the function,
> and the register which would contain the return value?
>
For live kernel patching, perhaps.
But for kprobes, I think they can touch anything. Matters what the
creater of the kprobe wanted to do.
-- Steve
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