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authorZhigang Lu <zlu@ezchip.com>2015-09-30 09:53:47 +0800
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>2016-01-04 15:09:31 -0500
commitf419e6f63c5afea00d7c17ebf54f2d265f5c4d7e (patch)
treec9c49f97a3a3abd0c55fce3f41fe71ef0125d3af /arch/tile/include
parent9f9499ae8e6415cefc4fe0a96ad0e27864353c89 (diff)
tile: define a macro ktext_writable_addr to get writable kernel text address
It is used by kgdb, ftrace, kprobe and jump label, so we factor this out into a helper routine. Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by: Zhigang Lu <zlu@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/tile/include/asm/page.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/page.h b/arch/tile/include/asm/page.h
index a213a8d84a95..5cee2cbff2b1 100644
--- a/arch/tile/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/page.h
@@ -319,6 +319,16 @@ static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
#define virt_to_page(kaddr) pfn_to_page(kaddr_to_pfn((void *)(kaddr)))
#define page_to_virt(page) pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page))
+/*
+ * The kernel text is mapped at MEM_SV_START as read-only. To allow
+ * modifying kernel text, it is also mapped at PAGE_OFFSET as read-write.
+ * This macro converts a kernel address to its writable kernel text mapping,
+ * which is used to modify the text code on a running kernel by kgdb,
+ * ftrace, kprobe, jump label, etc.
+ */
+#define ktext_writable_addr(kaddr) \
+ ((unsigned long)(kaddr) - MEM_SV_START + PAGE_OFFSET)
+
struct mm_struct;
extern pte_t *virt_to_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr);
extern pte_t *virt_to_kpte(unsigned long kaddr);