Re: [PATCH 2/5] ftrace: use code patching for ftrace graph tracer

[Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:16:24 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > 
> > Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer
> > 
> > This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch
> > the function graph code into the kernel.
> > 
> > This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing
> > and function graph tracing run together.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > +static int ftrace_mod_jmp(unsigned long ip,
> > +			  int old_offset, int new_offset)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned char code[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
> > +
> > +	if (probe_kernel_read(code, (void *)ip, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
> > +		return -EFAULT;
> > +
> > +	if (code[0] != 0xe9 || old_offset != *(int *)(&code[1]))
> 
> erk.  I suspect that there's a nicer way of doing this amongst our
> forest of get_unaligned_foo() interfaces.  Harvey will know.
> 

if (code[0] != 0xe9 || old_offset != get_unaligned((int *)(&code[1])))

> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	*(int *)(&code[1]) = new_offset;
> 
> Might be able to use put_unaligned_foo() here.
> 

	put_unaligned(new_offset, (int *)(&code[1]));

> The problem is that these functions use sizeof(*ptr) to work out what
> to do, so a cast is still needed.  A get_unaligned32(ptr) would be
> nice.  One which takes a void* and assumes CPU ordering.

I've been thinking similarly, I could investigate something that
goes in with the _noalign stuff?

I'll finish the documentation patch for the _noalign stuff and then see
about doing the host-order bits to fit in as well.

Harvey