1. 24 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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      ftrace: fix the fault label in updating code · a56be3fe
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      The fault label to jump to on fault of updating the code was misplaced
      preventing the fault from being recorded.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      a56be3fe
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      ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls · d61f82d0
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function
      pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the
      dynamic ftrace routines.
      
      On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function.
      When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub
      is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records
      the instruction pointers of the locations that call it.
      
      Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all
      the locations to nops.
      
      When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now
      be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call
      to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched
      when the function that should be called is updated.
      
      All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any
      type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code
      on the fly.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      d61f82d0
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      ftrace: move memory management out of arch code · 3c1720f0
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch moves the memory management of the ftrace
      records out of the arch code and into the generic code
      making the arch code simpler.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      3c1720f0
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      ftrace: use nops instead of jmp · dfa60aba
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch patches the call to mcount with nops instead
      of a jmp over the mcount call.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      dfa60aba
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      ftrace: dynamic enabling/disabling of function calls · 3d083395
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch adds a feature to dynamically replace the ftrace code
      with the jmps to allow a kernel with ftrace configured to run
      as fast as it can without it configured.
      
      The way this works, is on bootup (if ftrace is enabled), a ftrace
      function is registered to record the instruction pointer of all
      places that call the function.
      
      Later, if there's still any code to patch, a kthread is awoken
      (rate limited to at most once a second) that performs a stop_machine,
      and replaces all the code that was called with a jmp over the call
      to ftrace. It only replaces what was found the previous time. Typically
      the system reaches equilibrium quickly after bootup and there's no code
      patching needed at all.
      
      e.g.
      
        call ftrace  /* 5 bytes */
      
      is replaced with
      
        jmp 3f  /* jmp is 2 bytes and we jump 3 forward */
      3:
      
      When we want to enable ftrace for function tracing, the IP recording
      is removed, and stop_machine is called again to replace all the locations
      of that were recorded back to the call of ftrace.  When it is disabled,
      we replace the code back to the jmp.
      
      Allocation is done by the kthread. If the ftrace recording function is
      called, and we don't have any record slots available, then we simply
      skip that call. Once a second a new page (if needed) is allocated for
      recording new ftrace function calls.  A large batch is allocated at
      boot up to get most of the calls there.
      
      Because we do this via stop_machine, we don't have to worry about another
      CPU executing a ftrace call as we modify it. But we do need to worry
      about NMI's so all functions that might be called via nmi must be
      annotated with notrace_nmi. When this code is configured in, the NMI code
      will not call notrace.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      3d083395