Some architectures like powerpc require a non standard allocation of optinsn page, because module pages are too far from the kernel for direct branches.
Define weak alloc_optinsn_page() and free_optinsn_page(), that fall back on alloc_insn_page() and free_insn_page() when not overriden by the architecture. Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> --- kernel/kprobes.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 745f08fdd7a6..8c0a6fdef771 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -321,11 +321,21 @@ int kprobe_cache_get_kallsym(struct kprobe_insn_cache *c, unsigned int *symnum, } #ifdef CONFIG_OPTPROBES +void __weak *alloc_optinsn_page(void) +{ + return alloc_insn_page(); +} + +void __weak free_optinsn_page(void *page) +{ + free_insn_page(page); +} + /* For optimized_kprobe buffer */ struct kprobe_insn_cache kprobe_optinsn_slots = { .mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(kprobe_optinsn_slots.mutex), - .alloc = alloc_insn_page, - .free = free_insn_page, + .alloc = alloc_optinsn_page, + .free = free_optinsn_page, .sym = KPROBE_OPTINSN_PAGE_SYM, .pages = LIST_HEAD_INIT(kprobe_optinsn_slots.pages), /* .insn_size is initialized later */ -- 2.25.0