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Mark Rutland f1a54ae9af arm64: module/ftrace: intialize PLT at load time

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>

2019-11-06 14:17:32 +00:00

alpha

mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT

2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00

arc

mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming

2019-09-26 10:10:44 -07:00

arm

USB fixes for 5.4-rc3

2019-10-12 15:37:12 -07:00

arm64

arm64: module/ftrace: intialize PLT at load time