Re: [PATCH] kprobes for s390 architecture

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

> +static int __kprobes swap_instruction(void *aref)
> +{
> +	unsigned long addr, prev, tmp;
> +	int shift;
> +	struct ins_replace_args *args = aref;
> +
> +	addr = (unsigned long) args->ptr;
> +	shift = (2 ^ (addr & 2)) << 3;
> +	addr ^= addr & 2;
> +	asm volatile(
> +		"    l   %0,0(%4)\n"
> +		"    nr  %0,%5\n"
> +                "    lr  %1,%0\n"

Whitespace :)

> +		"    or  %0,%2\n"
> +		"    or  %1,%3\n"
> +		"0:  cs  %0,%1,0(%4)\n"
> +		"    jnl 1f\n"
> +		"    xr  %1,%0\n"
> +		"    nr  %1,%5\n"
> +		"    jnz 0b\n"
> +		"1:"
> +#ifndef __s390x__
> +		".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
> +		"2: lhi    %0,%6\n"
> +		"   bras   1,3f\n"
> +		"   .long  1b\n"
> +		"3: l      1,0(1)\n"
> +		"   br     1\n"
> +		".previous\n"
> +		".section __ex_table,\"a\"\n"
> +		"   .align 4\n"
> +		"   .long  0b,2b\n"
> +		".previous"
> +#else /* __s390x__ */
> +		".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
> +		"2: lghi   %0,%6\n"
> +		"   jg     1b\n"
> +		".previous\n"
> +		".section __ex_table,\"a\"\n"
> +		"   .align 8\n"
> +		"   .quad  0b,2b\n"
> +		".previous"
> +#endif /* __s390x__ */
> +		: "=&d" (prev), "=&d" (tmp)
> +		: "d" (args->old << shift), "d" (args->new << shift),
> +		  "a" (args->ptr), "d" (~(65535 << shift)), "K" (-EFAULT)
> +		: "memory", "cc" );
> +	return prev >> shift;

You need a label behind the cs instruction and put that into the __ex_table,
since the PSW will point to the instruction after cs if it fails.

Also, on failure this function seems to return -EFAULT >> shift, which
seems to be wrong.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier);

_GPL?