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authorJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>2014-01-07 22:17:08 +0800
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-01-08 15:21:28 +0000
commitb11a64a48ccc7ca0ceb33544206934fbd3cdbb22 (patch)
treecb2a1487a27d8a44612e1600664246a9b157031f /arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
parent4e5e1eb89f4832136f39c8ed371e52d743c3c0dc (diff)
arm64: introduce basic aarch64 instruction decoding helpers
Introduce basic aarch64 instruction decoding helper aarch64_get_insn_class() and aarch64_insn_hotpatch_safe(). Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Huawei Ltd.
+ * Author: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <asm/insn.h>
+
+static int aarch64_insn_encoding_class[] = {
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_REG,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_FPSIMD,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_IMM,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_IMM,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_REG,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,
+ AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_FPSIMD,
+};
+
+enum aarch64_insn_encoding_class __kprobes aarch64_get_insn_class(u32 insn)
+{
+ return aarch64_insn_encoding_class[(insn >> 25) & 0xf];
+}
+
+/* NOP is an alias of HINT */
+bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_nop(u32 insn)
+{
+ if (!aarch64_insn_is_hint(insn))
+ return false;
+
+ switch (insn & 0xFE0) {
+ case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_YIELD:
+ case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_WFE:
+ case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_WFI:
+ case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_SEV:
+ case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_SEVL:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ return true;
+ }
+}
+
+static bool __kprobes __aarch64_insn_hotpatch_safe(u32 insn)
+{
+ if (aarch64_get_insn_class(insn) != AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS)
+ return false;
+
+ return aarch64_insn_is_b(insn) ||
+ aarch64_insn_is_bl(insn) ||
+ aarch64_insn_is_svc(insn) ||
+ aarch64_insn_is_hvc(insn) ||
+ aarch64_insn_is_smc(insn) ||
+ aarch64_insn_is_brk(insn) ||
+ aarch64_insn_is_nop(insn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * ARM Architecture Reference Manual for ARMv8 Profile-A, Issue A.a
+ * Section B2.6.5 "Concurrent modification and execution of instructions":
+ * Concurrent modification and execution of instructions can lead to the
+ * resulting instruction performing any behavior that can be achieved by
+ * executing any sequence of instructions that can be executed from the
+ * same Exception level, except where the instruction before modification
+ * and the instruction after modification is a B, BL, NOP, BKPT, SVC, HVC,
+ * or SMC instruction.
+ */
+bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_hotpatch_safe(u32 old_insn, u32 new_insn)
+{
+ return __aarch64_insn_hotpatch_safe(old_insn) &&
+ __aarch64_insn_hotpatch_safe(new_insn);
+}