arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
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File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
arch/arm/kernel/patch.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 2984 bytes
- Lines
- 129
- Domain
- Architecture Layer
- Bucket
- arch/arm
- Inferred role
- Architecture Layer: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
- Allocates kernel memory; connect allocation flags and lifetime to context constraints.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/kernel.hlinux/spinlock.hlinux/kprobes.hlinux/mm.hlinux/stop_machine.hasm/cacheflush.hasm/fixmap.hasm/smp_plat.hasm/opcodes.hasm/text-patching.h
Detected Declarations
struct patchfunction patch_unmapfunction patch_unmapfunction patch_text_stop_machinefunction patch_text
Annotated Snippet
struct patch {
void *addr;
unsigned int insn;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(patch_lock);
static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap, unsigned long *flags)
{
unsigned int uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
bool module = !core_kernel_text(uintaddr);
struct page *page;
if (module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX))
page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
else if (!module && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX))
page = virt_to_page(addr);
else
return addr;
if (flags)
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&patch_lock, *flags);
set_fixmap(fixmap, page_to_phys(page));
return (void *) (__fix_to_virt(fixmap) + (uintaddr & ~PAGE_MASK));
}
static void __kprobes patch_unmap(int fixmap, unsigned long *flags)
{
clear_fixmap(fixmap);
if (flags)
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&patch_lock, *flags);
}
#else
static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap, unsigned long *flags)
{
return addr;
}
static void __kprobes patch_unmap(int fixmap, unsigned long *flags) { }
#endif
void __kprobes __patch_text_real(void *addr, unsigned int insn, bool remap)
{
bool thumb2 = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL);
unsigned int uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
bool twopage = false;
unsigned long flags;
void *waddr = addr;
int size;
if (remap)
waddr = patch_map(addr, FIX_TEXT_POKE0, &flags);
if (thumb2 && __opcode_is_thumb16(insn)) {
*(u16 *)waddr = __opcode_to_mem_thumb16(insn);
size = sizeof(u16);
} else if (thumb2 && (uintaddr & 2)) {
u16 first = __opcode_thumb32_first(insn);
u16 second = __opcode_thumb32_second(insn);
u16 *addrh0 = waddr;
u16 *addrh1 = waddr + 2;
twopage = (uintaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) == PAGE_SIZE - 2;
if (twopage && remap)
addrh1 = patch_map(addr + 2, FIX_TEXT_POKE1, NULL);
*addrh0 = __opcode_to_mem_thumb16(first);
*addrh1 = __opcode_to_mem_thumb16(second);
if (twopage && addrh1 != addr + 2) {
flush_kernel_vmap_range(addrh1, 2);
patch_unmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE1, NULL);
}
size = sizeof(u32);
} else {
if (thumb2)
insn = __opcode_to_mem_thumb32(insn);
else
insn = __opcode_to_mem_arm(insn);
*(u32 *)waddr = insn;
size = sizeof(u32);
}
if (waddr != addr) {
flush_kernel_vmap_range(waddr, twopage ? size / 2 : size);
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/kernel.h`, `linux/spinlock.h`, `linux/kprobes.h`, `linux/mm.h`, `linux/stop_machine.h`, `asm/cacheflush.h`, `asm/fixmap.h`, `asm/smp_plat.h`.
- Detected declarations: `struct patch`, `function patch_unmap`, `function patch_unmap`, `function patch_text_stop_machine`, `function patch_text`.
- Atlas domain: Architecture Layer / arch/arm.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
- Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.