Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] ftrace: add ftrace_init_nop()

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:16:20AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:58:25 +0000
> Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Architectures may need to perform special initialization of ftrace
> > callsites, and today they do so by special-casing ftrace_make_nop() when
> > the expected branch address is MCOUNT_ADDR. In some cases (e.g. for
> > patchable-function-entry), we don't have an mcount-like symbol and don't
> > want a synthetic MCOUNT_ADDR, but we may need to perform some
> > initialization of callsites.
> > 
> > To make it possible to separate initialization from runtime
> > modification, and to handle cases without an mcount-like symbol, this
> > patch adds an optional ftrace_init_nop() function that architectures can
> > implement, which does not pass a branch address.
> > 
> > Where an architecture does not provide ftrace_init_nop(), we will fall
> > back to the existing behaviour of calling ftrace_make_nop() with
> > MCOUNT_ADDR.
> > 
> > At the same time, ftrace_code_disable() is renamed to
> > ftrace_nop_initialize() to make it clearer that it is intended to
> > intialize a callsite into a disabled state, and is not for disabling a
> > callsite that has been runtime enabled. The kerneldoc description of rec
> > arguments is updated to cover non-mcount callsites.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Just to check, are you happy if this were to go via the arm64 tree with
the rest of the patches?

Mark.