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Author SHA1 Message Date
Pekka Paalanen
fe1ffafa80 x86 mmiotrace: fix relay-buffer-full flag for SMP
Relay has per-cpu buffers, but mmiotrace was using only a single flag
for detecting buffer full/not-full transitions. The new code makes
this per-cpu and actually counts missed events.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24 11:21:39 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
75bb88350e x86 mmiotrace: use lookup_address()
Use lookup_address() from pageattr.c instead of doing the same
manually. Also had to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lookup_address) to make this
work for modules. This also fixes "undefined symbol 'init_mm'"
compile error for x86_32.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24 11:21:32 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
8b7d89d02e x86: mmiotrace - trace memory mapped IO
Mmiotrace is a tool for trapping memory mapped IO (MMIO) accesses within
the kernel. It is used for debugging and especially for reverse
engineering evil binary drivers.

Mmiotrace works by wrapping the ioremap family of kernel functions and
marking the returned pages as not present. Access to the IO memory
triggers a page fault, which will be handled by mmiotrace's custom page
fault handler. This will single-step the faulted instruction with the
MMIO page marked as present. Access logs are directed to user space via
relay and debug_fs.

This page fault approach is necessary, because binary drivers have
readl/writel etc. calls inlined and therefore extremely difficult to
trap with with e.g. kprobes.

This patch depends on the custom page fault handlers patch.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24 11:21:14 +02:00