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| author | Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> | 2010-09-17 11:08:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2010-09-20 18:19:39 -0400 |
| commit | f49aa448561fe9215f43405cac6f31eb86317792 (patch) | |
| tree | c048d03e49cd20a0183ac173bd30893f8adcf91e /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | |
| parent | e9d2b064149ff7ef4acbc65a1b9374ac8b218d3e (diff) | |
| download | linux-f49aa448561fe9215f43405cac6f31eb86317792.tar.bz2 | |
jump label: Make dynamic no-op selection available outside of ftrace
Move Steve's code for finding the best 5-byte no-op from ftrace.c to
alternative.c. The idea is that other consumers (in this case jump label)
want to make use of that code.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <96259ae74172dcac99c0020c249743c523a92e18.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 64 |
1 files changed, 64 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index f65ab8b014c4..1849d8036ee8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -641,3 +641,67 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len) return addr; } +#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) + +unsigned char ideal_nop5[IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5]; + +void __init arch_init_ideal_nop5(void) +{ + extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_p6nop[]; + extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_nop5[]; + extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_jmp[]; + int faulted = 0; + + /* + * 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 ( + "ftrace_test_jmp:" + "jmp ftrace_test_p6nop\n" + "nop\n" + "nop\n" + "nop\n" /* 2 byte jmp + 3 bytes */ + "ftrace_test_p6nop:" + P6_NOP5 + "jmp 1f\n" + "ftrace_test_nop5:" + ".byte 0x66,0x66,0x66,0x66,0x90\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("converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00\n"); + memcpy(ideal_nop5, ftrace_test_p6nop, IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5); + break; + case 1: + pr_info("converting mcount calls to 66 66 66 66 90\n"); + memcpy(ideal_nop5, ftrace_test_nop5, IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5); + break; + case 2: + pr_info("converting mcount calls to jmp . + 5\n"); + memcpy(ideal_nop5, ftrace_test_jmp, IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5); + break; + } + +} +#endif |