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Currently we lazily-initialize a module's ftrace PLT at runtime when we install the first ftrace call. To do so we have to apply a number of sanity checks, transiently mark the module text as RW, and perform an IPI as part of handling Neoverse-N1 erratum #1542419. We only expect the ftrace trampoline to point at ftrace_caller() (AKA FTRACE_ADDR), so let's simplify all of this by intializing the PLT at module load time, before the module loader marks the module RO and performs the intial I-cache maintenance for the module. Thus we can rely on the module having been correctly intialized, and can simplify the runtime work necessary to install an ftrace call in a module. This will also allow for the removal of module_disable_ro(). Tested by forcing ftrace_make_call() to use the module PLT, and then loading up a module after setting up ftrace with: | echo ":mod:<module-name>" > set_ftrace_filter; | echo function > current_tracer; | modprobe <module-name> Since FTRACE_ADDR is only defined when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is selected, we wrap its use along with most of module_init_ftrace_plt() with ifdeffery rather than using IS_ENABLED(). Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com> Tested-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.