On Tuesday 25 March 2014 14:54:44 Jon Medhurst wrote:
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 14:42 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tuesday 25 March 2014 09:27:29 David Long wrote:
On 03/11/14 12:54, Jon Medhurst wrote:
Conditionally compile kprobes test cases for ARMv5 instructions to avoid compilation errors with ARMv4 targets like:
/tmp/cc7Tx8ST.s:16740: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `clz r0,r0'
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst tixy@linaro.org
This looks OK to me. Feel free to add my ack.
Ah, I had a similar patch in my 'randconfig-fixes' series.
Where's that?
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git/commit/?h=ar...
I noticed three other configurations that are broken with kprobes-test:
- ARMv3 (enabled by ARCH_RPC)
Didn't know we support < ARMv4!
We don't really (any more). RPC is a v4 CPU, but we build the kernel pretending it is v3 to work around some issue I don't remember.
- ARMv7-M (enabled by ARCH_EFM32)
I guess that problem is because randconfig is enabling HAVE_KPROBES, even though it wouldn't normally be selected, because we have
config ARCH_ARM select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
and ARCH_EFM32 is XIP_KERNEL.
Right. EFM32 can in theory run without XIP_KERNEL, but the only board we support doesn't have enough RAM for that.
I think this problem goes all the way back to the commit which added HAVE_KPROBES to all arches (3f550096dede4430f83b16457da83bf429155ac2) That replaced
config KPROBES depends on ... (ARM && !XIP_KERNEL)
with the current select if !XIP_KERNEL, which made it possible to enable kprobes for XIP when before we couldn't. And presumably that was for a good reason like it doesn't work on XIP?
The text segment is very read-only in XIP_KERNEL, so anything that tries to overwrite instructions can't work.
Not sure at the moment how best to fix that. (Making ARM_KPROBES_TEST depend on !XIP_KERNEL doesn't solve the underlying problem of KPROBES feature still being enabled for XIP kernels.)
Regardless of XIP, there is the other problem of ARMv7-M support, which in particular only has THUMB2 instructions:
CC arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.o /tmp/cclbjgU2.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cclbjgU2.s:701: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `rfeia sp!' make[3]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.o] Error 1 CC arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.o /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:315: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `msr cpsr_fs,r0' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:317: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r0,cpsr' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:673: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `msr cpsr_fs,r3' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:675: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r3,cpsr' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:919: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `msr cpsr_fs,r8' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:923: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r9,cpsr' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:960: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `msr cpsr_fs,r8' /tmp/ccwlnR1o.s:964: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r9,cpsr' make[3]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.o] Error 1 CC arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.o /tmp/ccVIP6jA.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccVIP6jA.s:1354: Error: selected processor does not support ARM opcodes /tmp/ccVIP6jA.s:1355: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `orr lr,lr,#1' /tmp/ccVIP6jA.s:1356: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `ldr pc,1f' make[3]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.o] Error 1 CC arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test-thumb.o /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:2032: Error: selected processor does not support ARM opcodes /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:2033: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `adr lr,2f+1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:2034: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `bx lr' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:4183: Error: selected processor does not support ARM opcodes /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:4184: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `adr lr,2f+1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:4185: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `bx lr' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:4222: Error: selected processor does not support ARM opcodes /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:4223: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `adr lr,2f+1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:4224: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `bx lr' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:5618: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `rfedb sp' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:5639: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `rfeia sp' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:5660: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `rfedb sp!' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:5681: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `rfeia sp!' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:6489: Error: selected processor does not support ARM opcodes /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:6490: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `adr lr,2f+1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:6491: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `bx lr' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:6528: Error: selected processor does not support ARM opcodes /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:6529: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `adr lr,2f+1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:6530: Error: attempt to use an ARM instruction on a Thumb-only processor -- `bx lr' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:7521: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `strexd r0,r1,[r2]' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:7584: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `ldrexd r0,[r1]' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:15321: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `pkhbt r0,r0,r1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:15350: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `pkhbt r14,r12,r10,lsl#2' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:15379: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `pkhtb r0,r0,r1' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:15408: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `pkhtb r14,r12,r10,asr#2' /tmp/ccN8WTB4.s:18355: Error: selected processor does not support Thumb mode `ssat16 r0,#12,r0'
- CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 (enabled by building a big-endian kernel on ARMv5 or older)
Should we treat those the same way, or just disable Kprobes for this case if nobody cares?
For CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 I have a feeling that the kprobes code wouldn't work, would have to think more about why I have that feeling. If it doesn't, we come back to the problem that arch code can't add dependencies to CONFIG_KPROBES as things stand.
The error message I get here is
arnd@wuerfel:~/arm-soc$ make O=build/0xCD5BF01B_defconfig/ -skj40 /git/arm-soc/Makefile:629: Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong not supported by compiler /git/arm-soc/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c: In function '__patch_text': /git/arm-soc/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c:35:4: error: implicit declaration of function '__opcode_to_mem_thumb32' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] insn = __opcode_to_mem_thumb32(insn); ^
I've filed that for now in the "wontfix" category, but I though I'd bring it up anyway.
Arnd