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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@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com> Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org> Tested-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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.