Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 May 2019 15:00:25 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH v3] ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler |
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On Wed, 1 May 2019 20:57:26 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 11:01:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This looks sane to me, although I'm surprised that we didn't already > > have an annotation for the nonstandard stack frame for asm files. That > > probably would be cleaner in a separate commit, but I guess it doesn't > > matter. > > > > Anyway, I'm willing to consider the entry code version if it looks a > > _lot_ simpler than this (so I'd like to see them side-by-side), but > > it's not like this looks all that complicated to me either. > > So I posted one earlier today: > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190501131117.GW2623@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net > > it's about a 1/3rd the number of lines and has 32bit support. It also > provides all the bits required to implement static_call().
That's the patch I started with.
> > That is; I think I'm firmly in favour of the entry variant -- provided > it actually works of course.
And it works. I ran it through tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest and it passed as good as without that patch.
I haven't ran it through my full test suite. I can do that and see how it makes out.
-- Steve
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