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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c68
1 files changed, 61 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 96aadbfedcc..4151c91254e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
-#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/ftrace.h>
+#include <asm/nops.h>
/* Long is fine, even if it is only 4 bytes ;-) */
@@ -119,13 +119,67 @@ notrace int ftrace_mcount_set(unsigned long *data)
int __init ftrace_dyn_arch_init(void *data)
{
- const unsigned char *const *noptable = find_nop_table();
-
- /* This is running in kstop_machine */
-
- ftrace_mcount_set(data);
+ extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_p6nop[];
+ extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_nop5[];
+ extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_jmp[];
+ int faulted = 0;
- ftrace_nop = (unsigned long *)noptable[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
+ /*
+ * There is no good nop for all x86 archs.
+ * We will default to using the P6_NOP5, but first we
+ * will test to make sure that the nop will actually
+ * work on this CPU. If it faults, we will then
+ * go to a lesser efficient 5 byte nop. If that fails
+ * we then just use a jmp as our nop. This isn't the most
+ * efficient nop, but we can not use a multi part nop
+ * since we would then risk being preempted in the middle
+ * of that nop, and if we enabled tracing then, it might
+ * cause a system crash.
+ *
+ * TODO: check the cpuid to determine the best nop.
+ */
+ asm volatile (
+ "jmp ftrace_test_jmp\n"
+ /* This code needs to stay around */
+ ".section .text, \"ax\"\n"
+ "ftrace_test_jmp:"
+ "jmp ftrace_test_p6nop\n"
+ ".byte 0x00,0x00,0x00\n" /* 2 byte jmp + 3 bytes */
+ "ftrace_test_p6nop:"
+ P6_NOP5
+ "jmp 1f\n"
+ "ftrace_test_nop5:"
+ ".byte 0x66,0x66,0x66,0x66,0x90\n"
+ "jmp 1f\n"
+ ".previous\n"
+ "1:"
+ ".section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"
+ "2: movl $1, %0\n"
+ " jmp ftrace_test_nop5\n"
+ "3: movl $2, %0\n"
+ " jmp 1b\n"
+ ".previous\n"
+ _ASM_EXTABLE(ftrace_test_p6nop, 2b)
+ _ASM_EXTABLE(ftrace_test_nop5, 3b)
+ : "=r"(faulted) : "0" (faulted));
+
+ switch (faulted) {
+ case 0:
+ pr_info("ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00\n");
+ ftrace_nop = (unsigned long *)ftrace_test_p6nop;
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ pr_info("ftrace: converting mcount calls to 66 66 66 66 90\n");
+ ftrace_nop = (unsigned long *)ftrace_test_nop5;
+ break;
+ case 2:
+ pr_info("ftrace: converting mcount calls to jmp 1f\n");
+ ftrace_nop = (unsigned long *)ftrace_test_jmp;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /* The return code is retured via data */
+ *(unsigned long *)data = 0;
return 0;
}