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From: duwe@lst.de (Torsten Duwe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] arm64: implement ftrace with regs
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:58:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181031185800.6aa17c91@blackhole> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181031141819.lv2tuj4ne5nf3lh3@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:18:19 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 02:19:07PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > Other architectures do rely on that. That's exactly for example why
> > on x86 we use '-pg -mfentry', to make sure we hook the function
> > *before* prologue.  
> 
> Ah, I'd missed -mfentry for x86. I now see that's also the case with
> __gnu_mcount_nc on arch/arm, so that covers my confusion.

Yes, fentry used to be the prerequisite, but it's everything but
portable. PPC64 already had the profile-kernel switch, which was
becoming just usable as we got at live patching.

I'm hoping that the patchable-function-entry will become the future
de-facto standard.

	Torsten

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-31 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-26 14:20 [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64 live patching Torsten Duwe
2018-10-26 14:21 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] arm64: implement ftrace with regs Torsten Duwe
2018-10-31 12:10   ` Mark Rutland
2018-10-31 13:19     ` Jiri Kosina
2018-10-31 14:18       ` Mark Rutland
2018-10-31 17:58         ` Torsten Duwe [this message]
2018-11-08 12:12   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-12 11:51     ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-26 14:21 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] arm64: implement live patching Torsten Duwe
2018-11-06 16:49   ` Miroslav Benes
2018-11-08 12:42   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-12 11:01     ` Torsten Duwe
2018-11-12 11:06       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-26 14:21 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] arm64: reliable stacktraces Torsten Duwe
2018-10-26 15:37   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-10-29  9:28     ` Mark Rutland
2018-10-29 15:42       ` Josh Poimboeuf

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