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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	takahiro.akashi@linaro.org,
	Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	andrew.wafaa@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: implement FTRACE_WITH_REGS
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 17:08:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160708170808.1ab70ce3@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160708202455.GA4580@lst.de>

On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 22:24:55 +0200
Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:57:10AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:48:24 -0500
> > Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:  
> > > 
> > > Here, with -fprolog-pad, it's already a nop, so no change is needed.
> > >   
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 
> > That's what I was thinking. But as I stated in another email (probably
> > in the air when you wrote this), the call to ftrace_modify_code() may be
> > completely circumvented by ftrace_make_nop() if the addr is MCOUNT_ADDR.  
> 
> Only on the _first_ invocation. Later on, tracing can be switched on and off,
> and then the instructions need to be changed just like with fentry (or
> profile-kernel ;-)
> 

Understood, but ftrace_modify_code() will only receive addr ==
MCOUNT_ADDR on boot up or when a module is loaded. In both cases, with
-fprolog-pad it will already be a nop, hence no need to call
ftrace_modify_code(), in those cases.

In all other cases, addr will point to a ftrace trampoline.

-- Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-08 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-27 15:15 [PATCH v2 0/2] arm64 live patching Torsten Duwe
2016-06-27 15:15 ` Torsten Duwe
2016-06-27 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: implement FTRACE_WITH_REGS Torsten Duwe
2016-06-27 15:17   ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-01 12:53   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-01 12:53     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-04  9:18     ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-04  9:18       ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-03  5:17   ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-08 14:58   ` Petr Mladek
2016-07-08 14:58     ` Petr Mladek
2016-07-08 15:07     ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-08 15:24       ` Petr Mladek
2016-07-08 15:24         ` Petr Mladek
2016-07-08 15:48         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-08 15:48           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-08 15:57           ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-08 20:24             ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-08 20:24               ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-08 21:08               ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2016-07-09  9:06                 ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-09  9:06                   ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-15 18:36                   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-15 18:36                     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-08 15:49         ` Steven Rostedt
2016-06-27 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: implement live patching Torsten Duwe
2016-06-27 15:17   ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-11 14:03   ` Miroslav Benes
2016-07-11 14:03     ` Miroslav Benes
2016-07-11 21:58     ` Jessica Yu
2016-07-12  9:47       ` Miroslav Benes
2016-07-13  0:11         ` [PATCH] arm64: take SHN_LIVEPATCH syms into account when calculating plt_max_entries Jessica Yu
2016-07-13  0:11           ` Jessica Yu
2016-08-17  9:38           ` Miroslav Benes
2016-08-17  9:38             ` Miroslav Benes
2016-08-11 16:46     ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: implement live patching Torsten Duwe
2016-08-11 16:46       ` Torsten Duwe
2016-07-15 16:03   ` Paul Gortmaker

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