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authorGravatar Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> 2024-05-05 19:06:18 +0300
committerGravatar Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> 2024-05-14 00:31:43 -0700
commit12af2b83d0b17ec8b379b721dd4a8fbcd5d791f3 (patch)
treec04ce85d6f0d1c09aec941554f4623719581ce84 /kernel/kprobes.c
parentmodule: make module_memory_{alloc,free} more self-contained (diff)
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mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()
module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code. Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code. Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation. Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc() and execmem_free() APIs. Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all call sites to use the new APIs. Since architectures define different restrictions on placement, permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that subsystem. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 65adc815fc6e..ddd7cdc16edf 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
-#include <linux/moduleloader.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
#include <linux/static_call.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/execmem.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -113,17 +113,17 @@ enum kprobe_slot_state {
void __weak *alloc_insn_page(void)
{
/*
- * Use module_alloc() so this page is within +/- 2GB of where the
+ * Use execmem_alloc() so this page is within +/- 2GB of where the
* kernel image and loaded module images reside. This is required
* for most of the architectures.
* (e.g. x86-64 needs this to handle the %rip-relative fixups.)
*/
- return module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
+ return execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_KPROBES, PAGE_SIZE);
}
static void free_insn_page(void *page)
{
- module_memfree(page);
+ execmem_free(page);
}
struct kprobe_insn_cache kprobe_insn_slots = {