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authorZong Li <[email protected]>2020-04-21 07:30:01 +0000
committerPalmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>2020-05-18 18:38:16 +0000
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parentriscv: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() instead of __krpobes annotation (diff)
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riscv: Use text_mutex instead of patch_lock
We don't need the additional lock protection when patching the text. There are two patching interfaces here: - patch_text: patch code and always synchronize with stop_machine() - patch_text_nosync: patch code without synchronization, it's caller's responsibility to synchronize all CPUs if needed. For the first one, stop_machine() is protected by its own mutex, and also the irq is already disabled here. For the second one, in risc-v real case now, it would be used to ftrace patching the mcount function, since it already running under kstop_machine(), no other thread will run, so we could use text_mutex on ftrace side. Signed-off-by: Zong Li <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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