ftrace/direct: Do not disable when switching direct callers
Currently to switch a set of "multi" direct trampolines from one trampoline to another, a full shutdown of the current set needs to be done, followed by an update to what trampoline the direct callers would call, and then re-enabling the callers. This leaves a time when the functions will not be calling anything, and events may be missed. Instead, use a trick to allow all the functions with direct trampolines attached will always call either the new or old trampoline while the switch is happening. To do this, first attach a "dummy" callback via ftrace to all the functions that the current direct trampoline is attached to. This will cause the functions to call the "list func" instead of the direct trampoline. The list function will call the direct trampoline "helper" that will set the function it should call as it returns back to the ftrace trampoline. At this moment, the direct caller descriptor can safely update the direct call trampoline. The list function will pick either the new or old function (depending on the memory coherency model of the architecture). Now removing the dummy function from each of the locations of the direct trampoline caller, will put back the direct call, but now to the new trampoline. A better visual is: [ Changing direct call from my_direct_1 to my_direct_2 ] <traced_func>: call my_direct_1 |||||||||||||||||||| vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv <traced_func>: call ftrace_caller <ftrace_caller>: [..] call ftrace_ops_list_func ftrace_ops_list_func() { ops->func() -> direct_helper -> set rax to my_direct_1 or my_direct_2 } call rax (to either my_direct_1 or my_direct_2 |||||||||||||||||||| vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv <traced_func>: call my_direct_2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211014162819.5c85618b@gandalf.local.home/ Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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