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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index c997f7371c65..df93392aad89 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -3318,7 +3318,7 @@ static int ftrace_process_locs(struct module *mod, { unsigned long *p; unsigned long addr; - unsigned long flags; + unsigned long flags = 0; /* Shut up gcc */ mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock); p = start; @@ -3336,12 +3336,18 @@ static int ftrace_process_locs(struct module *mod, } /* - * Disable interrupts to prevent interrupts from executing - * code that is being modified. + * We only need to disable interrupts on start up + * because we are modifying code that an interrupt + * may execute, and the modification is not atomic. + * But for modules, nothing runs the code we modify + * until we are finished with it, and there's no + * reason to cause large interrupt latencies while we do it. */ - local_irq_save(flags); + if (!mod) + local_irq_save(flags); ftrace_update_code(mod); - local_irq_restore(flags); + if (!mod) + local_irq_restore(flags); mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock); return 0; |