Avoid calling out to bsearch() by inlining it, for normal kernel configs this was the last external call and poke_int3_handler() is now fully self sufficient -- no calls to external code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ static __always_inline void *text_poke_a return _stext + tp->rel_addr; } -static int notrace patch_cmp(const void *key, const void *elt) +static __always_inline int patch_cmp(const void *key, const void *elt) { struct text_poke_loc *tp = (struct text_poke_loc *) elt; @@ -989,7 +989,6 @@ static int notrace patch_cmp(const void return 1; return 0; } -NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(patch_cmp); int notrace poke_int3_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) { @@ -1024,9 +1023,9 @@ int notrace poke_int3_handler(struct pt_ * Skip the binary search if there is a single member in the vector. */ if (unlikely(desc->nr_entries > 1)) { - tp = bsearch(ip, desc->vec, desc->nr_entries, - sizeof(struct text_poke_loc), - patch_cmp); + tp = __bsearch(ip, desc->vec, desc->nr_entries, + sizeof(struct text_poke_loc), + patch_cmp); if (!tp) goto out_put; } else {