Re: Re: [for-next][PATCH 1/4] ftrace/x86: Add dynamic allocated trampoline for ftrace_ops

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Nov 03 2014 - 02:50:57 EST


(2014/11/01 1:01), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:19:03 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>> + /* Load the contents of ptr into the callback parameter */
>>> + offset = (unsigned long)ptr;
>>> + offset -= (unsigned long)trampoline + op_offset + OP_REF_SIZE;
>>> +
>>> + op_ptr.offset = offset;
>>> +
>>> + /* put in the new offset to the ftrace_ops */
>>> + memcpy(trampoline + op_offset, &op_ptr, OP_REF_SIZE);
>>
>> Would we better call flush_icache_range here?
>
> Do we need to? We just allocated memory to execute. It shouldn't be in
> any CPU cache on the machine.

Indeed, if the trampoline buffer is not re-used (and it seems so),
we don't need to care about it.

OK, I've reviewed that :).

Thank you,

>
> -- Steve
>
>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>> +
>>> + /* ALLOC_TRAMP flags lets us know we created it */
>>> + ops->flags |= FTRACE_OPS_FL_ALLOC_TRAMP;
>>> +
>>> + return (unsigned long)trampoline;
>>> +}
>>
>>
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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
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