[PATCH v5 08/10] module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Apr 13 2015 - 10:17:19 EST


Andrew worried about the overhead on small systems; only use the fancy
code when either perf or tracing is enabled.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/module.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(module_mutex);
static LIST_HEAD(modules);

+#if defined(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) || defined(CONFIG_TRACING)
+
/*
* Use a latched RB-tree for __module_address(); this allows us to use
* RCU-sched lookups of the address from any context.
@@ -112,6 +114,10 @@ static LIST_HEAD(modules);
*
* Because init ranges are short lived we mark them unlikely and have placed
* them outside the critical cacheline in struct module.
+ *
+ * This is conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING because those can really hit
+ * __module_address() hard by doing a lot of stack unwinding; potentially from
+ * NMI context.
*/

static __always_inline unsigned long __mod_tree_val(struct latch_tree_node *n)
@@ -193,7 +199,7 @@ static void mod_tree_remove(struct modul
mod_tree_remove_init(mod);
}

-static struct module *mod_tree_find(unsigned long addr)
+static struct module *mod_find(unsigned long addr)
{
struct latch_tree_node *ltn;

@@ -204,6 +210,26 @@ static struct module *mod_tree_find(unsi
return container_of(ltn, struct mod_tree_node, node)->mod;
}

+#else /* !(PERF_EVENTS || TRACING) */
+
+static void mod_tree_insert(struct module *mod) { }
+static void mod_tree_remove_init(struct module *mod) { }
+static void mod_tree_remove(struct module *mod) { }
+
+static struct module *mod_find(unsigned long addr)
+{
+ struct module *mod;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) {
+ if (within_module(addr, mod))
+ return mod;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+#endif /* !(PERF_EVENTS || TRACING) */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB
struct list_head *kdb_modules = &modules; /* kdb needs the list of modules */
#endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_KDB */
@@ -3949,7 +3975,7 @@ struct module *__module_address(unsigned

module_assert_mutex_or_preempt();

- mod = mod_tree_find(addr);
+ mod = mod_find(addr);
if (mod) {
BUG_ON(!within_module(addr, mod));
if (mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)


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