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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Alan Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Cc: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	cminyard@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Ftrace: Fix dynamic tracing of kernel modules
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:25:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140807212514.GD29898@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOGqxeW8+cdfUuGqy8d6Ewcyy9oC7ZCsdd1p4aX_-zko38BAuA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:12:06PM -0400, Alan Cooper wrote:

> Actually , there's no reason to write the second NOP when nop'ing the
> mcount call site in a module. This was done to remove the stack adjust
> instruction which only exists at this location for internal kernel
> routines. The following diff seems like a simpler way to solve issue
> #1:

Oh?

$ mips-linux-objdump -d --reloc net/sctp/sctp.ko
[...]
00000000 <sctp_sm_lookup_event>:
       0:       27bdffe8        addiu   sp,sp,-24
       4:       afbf0014        sw      ra,20(sp)
       8:       3c030000        lui     v1,0x0
                        8: R_MIPS_HI16  _mcount
       c:       24630000        addiu   v1,v1,0
                        c: R_MIPS_LO16  _mcount
      10:       03e00821        move    at,ra
      14:       27ac0014        addiu   t4,sp,20
      18:       0060f809        jalr    v1
      1c:       27bdfff8        addiu   sp,sp,-8  <====
[...]
      64:       27bd0018        addiu   sp,sp,24
      68:       03e00008        jr      ra
[...]

So the stack adjustment also exists for modules.

Or am I missunderstanding something?

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-24  5:55 [PATCH] MIPS: Ftrace: Fix dynamic tracing of kernel modules Petri Gynther
2014-08-05 16:41 ` Alan Cooper
     [not found]   ` <CAGXr9JE7v9-hS3irmdgeaEU2iGLZHshEr_N-Do1UAsZhyzMe2g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-08-06 17:12     ` Alan Cooper
2014-08-07 21:25       ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2014-08-08  4:11         ` Tony Wu

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