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livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available

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When CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is available, the ftrace call
will be able to set the ip of the calling function. This will improve the
performance of live kernel patching where it does not need all the regs to
be stored just to change the instruction pointer.

If all archs that support live kernel patching also support
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, then the architecture specific function
klp_arch_set_pc() could be made generic.

It is possible that an arch can support HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS but
not HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS and then have access to live patching.

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2020-10-28 17:15:27 -04:00
parent 02a474ca26
commit 2860cd8a23
8 changed files with 29 additions and 9 deletions
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include/linux/ftrace.h
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@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ struct ftrace_regs {
};
#define arch_ftrace_get_regs(fregs) (&(fregs)->regs)
/*
* ftrace_instruction_pointer_set() is to be defined by the architecture
* if to allow setting of the instruction pointer from the ftrace_regs
* when HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is set and it supports
* live kernel patching.
*/
#define ftrace_instruction_pointer_set(fregs, ip) do { } while (0)
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS */
static __always_inline struct pt_regs *ftrace_get_regs(struct ftrace_regs *fregs)