On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:46:48 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 02:52:50PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:06:58 -0700
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > +void replace_call(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, void *target)
> > > +{
> > > + bp_int3_call_target = target;
> > > + bp_int3_call_return = addr + len;
> > > + bp_int3_handler_irqoff = emulate_call_irqoff;
> > > + text_poke_bp(addr, opcode, len, emulate_call_irqon);
> > > +}
> >
> > Note, the function tracer does not use text poke. It does it in batch
> > mode. It can update over 40,000 calls in one go:
>
> Note that Daniel is adding batch stuff to text_poke(), because
> jump_label/static_key stuffs also end up wanting to change more than one
> site at a time and IPI spraying the machine for every single instance is
> hurting.
>
> So ideally ftrace would start to use the 'normal' code when that
> happens.
Sure, but that's a completely different issue. We would need to solve
the 'emulate' call for batch mode first.
-- Steve
