[PATCH 5/8] ftrace: Make DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS and !WITH_REGS

Florent Revest revest at chromium.org
Thu Feb 2 10:18:05 PST 2023


On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 4:54 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 05:34:17PM +0100, Florent Revest wrote:
> > Direct called trampolines can be called in two ways:
> > - either from the ftrace callsite. In this case, they do not access any
> >   struct ftrace_regs nor pt_regs
> > - Or, if a ftrace ops is also attached, from the end of a ftrace
> >   trampoline. In this case, the call_direct_funcs ops is in charge of
> >   setting the direct call trampoline's address in a struct ftrace_regs
> >
> > Since "ftrace: pass fregs to arch_ftrace_set_direct_caller()", the later
> > case no longer requires a full pt_regs.
>
> Minor nit, but could we please have the commit ID, e.g.
>
> | Since commit:
> |
> |   9705bc70960459ae ("ftrace: pass fregs to arch_ftrace_set_direct_caller()")
> |
> | The latter case no longer requires a full pt_regs.

Sure thing, will do!



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