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Commit 7162431d authored by Miroslav Benes's avatar Miroslav Benes Committed by Steven Rostedt
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ftrace: Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag

Livepatch uses ftrace for redirection to new patched functions. It means
that if ftrace is disabled, all live patched functions are disabled as
well. Toggling global 'ftrace_enabled' sysctl thus affect it directly.
It is not a problem per se, because only administrator can set sysctl
values, but it still may be surprising.

Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag to amend this. If the
FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT is set on any ftrace ops, the tracing cannot be
disabled by disabling ftrace_enabled. Equally, a callback with the flag
set cannot be registered if ftrace_enabled is disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016113316.13415-2-mbenes@suse.cz



Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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