[PATCH v3 3/7] riscv: ftrace: prepare ftrace for atomic code patching

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 11:02:29AM +0100, Björn Töpel wrote:
> Adding Robbin for input, who's doing much more crazy text patching in
> JVM, than what we do in the kernel. ;-)
> 
> Let's say we're tracing "f". Previously w/ stop_machine() it was
> something like:
> 
> f:
> 1: nop
>    nop
>    ...
>    ...
> 
> ftrace_caller:
>    ...
>    auipc	a2, function_trace_op
>    ld		a2, function_trace_op(a2)
>    ...
> 2: auipc    ra, ftrace_stub
>    jalr     ftrace_stub(ra)
> 
> The text was patched by ftrace in 1 and 2.
> 
> ...and now:
> f:
>    auipc    t0, ftrace_caller
> A: nop
>    ...
>    ...
> 
> ftrace_caller:
>    ...
>    auipc    a2, function_trace_op
>    ld       a2, function_trace_op(a2)
>    ...
>    auipc    ra, ftrace_call_dest
>    ld       ra, ftrace_call_dest(ra)
>    jalr     ra 
> 
> The text is only patched in A, and the tracer func is loaded via
> ftrace_call_dest.

Previously the operation was no-op, right?

Confused...

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