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The current method of handling multiple function callbacks is to register a list function callback that calls all the other callbacks based on their hash tables and compare it to the function that the callback was called on. But this is very inefficient. For example, if you are tracing all functions in the kernel and then add a kprobe to a function such that the kprobe uses ftrace, the mcount trampoline will switch from calling the function trace callback to calling the list callback that will iterate over all registered ftrace_ops (in this case, the function tracer and the kprobes callback). That means for every function being traced it checks the hash of the ftrace_ops for function tracing and kprobes, even though the kprobes is only set at a single function. The kprobes ftrace_ops is checked for every function being traced! Instead of calling the list function for functions that are only being traced by a single callback, we can call a dynamically allocated trampoline that calls the callback directly. The function graph tracer already uses a direct call trampoline when it is being traced by itself but it is not dynamically allocated. It's trampoline is static in the kernel core. The infrastructure that called the function graph trampoline can also be used to call a dynamically allocated one. For now, only ftrace_ops that are not dynamically allocated can have a trampoline. That is, users such as function tracer or stack tracer. kprobes and perf allocate their ftrace_ops, and until there's a safe way to free the trampoline, it can not be used. The dynamically allocated ftrace_ops may, although, use the trampoline if the kernel is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. But that will come later. Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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