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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-10-31 00:03:22 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-31 10:29:17 +0100
commita26a2a27396c0a0877aa701f8f92d08ba550a6c9 (patch)
tree8e314b970e0219419b89204d3197fbc1257bf36e /arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
parentb807c3d0f8e39ed7cbbbe6da162650e305e8de15 (diff)
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ftrace: nmi safe code clean ups
Impact: cleanup This patch cleans up the NMI safe code for dynamic ftrace as suggested by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 6685b0fc1b44..69149337f2fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr)
*
* Two buffers are added: An IP buffer and a "code" buffer.
*
- * 1) Put in the instruction pointer into the IP buffer
+ * 1) Put the instruction pointer into the IP buffer
* and the new code into the "code" buffer.
* 2) Set a flag that says we are modifying code
* 3) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
@@ -85,14 +85,14 @@ unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr)
* are the same as what exists.
*/
-static atomic_t in_nmi;
-static int mod_code_status;
-static int mod_code_write;
-static void *mod_code_ip;
-static void *mod_code_newcode;
+static atomic_t in_nmi = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static int mod_code_status; /* holds return value of text write */
+static int mod_code_write; /* set when NMI should do the write */
+static void *mod_code_ip; /* holds the IP to write to */
+static void *mod_code_newcode; /* holds the text to write to the IP */
-static int nmi_wait_count;
-static atomic_t nmi_update_count;
+static unsigned nmi_wait_count;
+static atomic_t nmi_update_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
int ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info(char *buf, int size)
{
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