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ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls

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This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function
pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the
dynamic ftrace routines.

On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function.
When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub
is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records
the instruction pointers of the locations that call it.

Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all
the locations to nops.

When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now
be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call
to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched
when the function that should be called is updated.

All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any
type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code
on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steven Rostedt
2008-05-12 21:20:43 +02:00
committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 3c1720f00b
commit d61f82d066
5 changed files with 262 additions and 85 deletions
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include/linux/ftrace.h
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@@ -56,9 +56,14 @@ struct dyn_ftrace {
extern int ftrace_ip_converted(unsigned long ip);
extern unsigned char *ftrace_nop_replace(void);
extern unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr);
extern int ftrace_dyn_arch_init(void);
extern int ftrace_dyn_arch_init(void *data);
extern int ftrace_mcount_set(unsigned long *data);
extern int ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
unsigned char *new_code);
extern int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func);
extern void ftrace_caller(void);
extern void ftrace_call(void);
extern void mcount_call(void);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER