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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c index 0d93a941934c..cd37469b54ee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c @@ -30,14 +30,32 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE +/* + * modifying_code is set to notify NMIs that they need to use + * memory barriers when entering or exiting. But we don't want + * to burden NMIs with unnecessary memory barriers when code + * modification is not being done (which is most of the time). + * + * A mutex is already held when ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare + * and post_process are called. No locks need to be taken here. + * + * Stop machine will make sure currently running NMIs are done + * and new NMIs will see the updated variable before we need + * to worry about NMIs doing memory barriers. + */ +static int modifying_code __read_mostly; +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, save_modifying_code); + int ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare(void) { set_kernel_text_rw(); + modifying_code = 1; return 0; } int ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process(void) { + modifying_code = 0; set_kernel_text_ro(); return 0; } @@ -149,6 +167,11 @@ static void ftrace_mod_code(void) void ftrace_nmi_enter(void) { + __get_cpu_var(save_modifying_code) = modifying_code; + + if (!__get_cpu_var(save_modifying_code)) + return; + if (atomic_inc_return(&nmi_running) & MOD_CODE_WRITE_FLAG) { smp_rmb(); ftrace_mod_code(); @@ -160,6 +183,9 @@ void ftrace_nmi_enter(void) void ftrace_nmi_exit(void) { + if (!__get_cpu_var(save_modifying_code)) + return; + /* Finish all executions before clearing nmi_running */ smp_mb(); atomic_dec(&nmi_running); |
