From d61f82d06672f57fca410da6f7fffd15867db622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:20:43 +0200 Subject: ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls 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: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/ftrace.h | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/ftrace.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index d509ad6c9cb..b0dd0093058 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -56,9 +56,14 @@ struct dyn_ftrace { extern int ftrace_ip_converted(unsigned long ip); extern unsigned char *ftrace_nop_replace(void); extern unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr); -extern int ftrace_dyn_arch_init(void); +extern int ftrace_dyn_arch_init(void *data); +extern int ftrace_mcount_set(unsigned long *data); extern int ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code, unsigned char *new_code); +extern int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func); +extern void ftrace_caller(void); +extern void ftrace_call(void); +extern void mcount_call(void); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER -- cgit v1.2.3