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Commit ed292718 authored by Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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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: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 5fae941b
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