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1 /* Rewritten by Rusty Russell, on the backs of many others...
2 Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002 Rusty Russell IBM.
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18 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
19 #include <linux/memory.h>
20 #include <linux/module.h>
21 #include <linux/mutex.h>
22 #include <linux/init.h>
24 #include <asm/sections.h>
25 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
28 * mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching).
29 * some users need to sleep (allocating memory...) while they hold this lock.
31 * NOT exported to modules - patching kernel text is a really delicate matter.
33 DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex);
35 extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[];
36 extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
38 /* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */
39 void __init sort_main_extable(void)
41 sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table);
44 /* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */
45 const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr)
47 const struct exception_table_entry *e;
49 e = search_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table-1, addr);
50 if (!e)
51 e = search_module_extables(addr);
52 return e;
55 static inline int init_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
57 if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext &&
58 addr <= (unsigned long)_einittext)
59 return 1;
60 return 0;
63 int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
65 if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext &&
66 addr <= (unsigned long)_etext)
67 return 1;
69 if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING &&
70 init_kernel_text(addr))
71 return 1;
72 return 0;
75 /**
76 * core_kernel_data - tell if addr points to kernel data
77 * @addr: address to test
79 * Returns true if @addr passed in is from the core kernel data
80 * section.
82 * Note: On some archs it may return true for core RODATA, and false
83 * for others. But will always be true for core RW data.
85 int core_kernel_data(unsigned long addr)
87 if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sdata &&
88 addr < (unsigned long)_edata)
89 return 1;
90 return 0;
93 int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
95 if (core_kernel_text(addr))
96 return 1;
97 if (is_module_text_address(addr))
98 return 1;
100 * There might be init symbols in saved stacktraces.
101 * Give those symbols a chance to be printed in
102 * backtraces (such as lockdep traces).
104 * Since we are after the module-symbols check, there's
105 * no danger of address overlap:
107 if (init_kernel_text(addr))
108 return 1;
109 return 0;
112 int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
114 if (core_kernel_text(addr))
115 return 1;
116 return is_module_text_address(addr);
120 * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers
121 * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the
122 * real function address. As a result, to find if a function
123 * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some
124 * special dereferencing first.
126 int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr)
128 unsigned long addr;
129 addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr);
130 if (core_kernel_text(addr))
131 return 1;
132 return is_module_text_address(addr);