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    x86: mmiotrace - trace memory mapped IO · 8b7d89d0
    Pekka Paalanen authored
    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: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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