From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location()
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 23:19:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB65A85.8070700@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120518131051.251652937@goodmis.org>
(2012/05/18 22:09), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
>
> ftrace_location() is passed an addr, and returns 1 if the addr is
> on a ftrace nop (or caller to ftrace_caller), and 0 otherwise.
>
> To let kprobes know if it should move a breakpoint or not, itH
> must return the actual addr that is the start of the ftrace nop.
> This way a kprobe placed on the location of a ftrace nop, can
> instead be placed on the instruction after the nop. Even if the
> probe addr is on the second or later byte of the nop, it can
> simply be moved forward.
>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This looks good to me:)
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Thanks!
P.S.
Steven, ftrace-based optimization is under development with both
i386/x86-64 support :)
--
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-18 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 13:08 [PATCH 00/15] [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 3.5 Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 01/15] tracing: Clean up tracing_mark_write() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 02/15] ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 03/15] ring-buffer: Make addition of pages in ring buffer atomic Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 04/15] ring-buffer: Add integrity check at end of iter read Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 05/15] ring-buffer: Reset head page before running self test Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 06/15] tracing: Check return value of tracing_dentry_percpu() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 07/15] tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 08/15] ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 09/15] ftrace: Remove extra helper functions Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 10/15] ftrace: Speed up search by skipping pages by address Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 11/15] ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_location() and ftrace_text_reserved() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 12/15] ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 14:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 13/15] ftrace: Make ftrace_modify_all_code() global for archs to use Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 14/15] ftrace/x86: Have x86 ftrace use the ftrace_modify_all_code() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-18 13:09 ` [PATCH 15/15] ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER Steven Rostedt
2012-05-19 1:43 ` [PATCH 00/15] [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 3.5 Steven Rostedt
2012-05-19 10:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-19 12:25 ` Steven Rostedt
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