Upstream, tracepoints are protected by per-CPU mutexes. An unlinked
tracepoint may be freed once all the tracepoint mutexes have been acquired
and released - this is done in fasttrap_mod_barrier(). This mechanism was
not properly ported: in some places, the proc lock is used in place of a
tracepoint lock, and in others the locking is omitted entirely. This change
implements tracepoint locking with an rmlock, where the read lock is used
in fasttrap probe context. As a side effect, this fixes a recursion on the
proc lock when the raise action is used from a userland probe.
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These helper functions can be used to read in or write a buffer from or to
an arbitrary process' address space. Without them, this can only be done
using proc_rwmem(), which requires the caller to fill out a uio. This is
onerous and results in code duplication; the new functions provide a simpler
interface which is sufficient for most existing callers of proc_rwmem().
This change also adds a manual page for proc_rwmem() and the new functions.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4245
There is one known issue: Some probes will display an error message along the
lines of: "Invalid address (0)"
I tested this with both a simple dtrace probe and dtruss on a few different
binaries on 32-bit. I only compiled 64-bit, did not run it, but I don't expect
problems without the modules loaded. Volunteers are welcome.
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