Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:58:20 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
> But interesting, I don't see a synchronize_rcu_tasks() call
> there.
We felt we don't need it in this case. We patch the branch to ftrace
with a nop first. Other cpus should see that first. But, now that I
Naveen N. Rao's on June 27, 2019 9:23 pm:
> With -mprofile-kernel, gcc emits 'mflr r0', followed by 'bl _mcount' to
> enable function tracing and profiling. So far, with dynamic ftrace, we
> used to only patch out the branch to _mcount(). However, mflr is
> executed by the branch unit that can only
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:58:20 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
>
> > But interesting, I don't see a synchronize_rcu_tasks() call
> > there.
>
> We felt we don't need it in this case. We patch the branch to ftrace
> with a nop first. Other cpus should see that first. But, now that I
> think about
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the review!
Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:53:52 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
With -mprofile-kernel, gcc emits 'mflr r0', followed by 'bl _mcount' to
enable function tracing and profiling. So far, with dynamic ftrace, we
used to only patch out the branch to
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:53:52 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
> With -mprofile-kernel, gcc emits 'mflr r0', followed by 'bl _mcount' to
> enable function tracing and profiling. So far, with dynamic ftrace, we
> used to only patch out the branch to _mcount(). However, mflr is
> executed by the branch
Naveen N. Rao wrote:
With -mprofile-kernel, gcc emits 'mflr r0', followed by 'bl _mcount' to
enable function tracing and profiling. So far, with dynamic ftrace, we
used to only patch out the branch to _mcount(). However, mflr is
executed by the branch unit that can only execute one per cycle on
P
With -mprofile-kernel, gcc emits 'mflr r0', followed by 'bl _mcount' to
enable function tracing and profiling. So far, with dynamic ftrace, we
used to only patch out the branch to _mcount(). However, mflr is
executed by the branch unit that can only execute one per cycle on
POWER9 and shared with b
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