linux/include/asm-generic
Steven Rostedt 8da3821ba5 ftrace: create __mcount_loc section
This patch creates a section in the kernel called "__mcount_loc".
This will hold a list of pointers to the mcount relocation for
each call site of mcount.

For example:

objdump -dr init/main.o
[...]
Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <do_one_initcall>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
[...]
000000000000017b <init_post>:
 17b:   55                      push   %rbp
 17c:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 17f:   53                      push   %rbx
 180:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
 184:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  189 <init_post+0xe>
                        185: R_X86_64_PC32      mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
[...]

We will add a section to point to each function call.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad .text + 0x185
[...]

The offset to of the mcount call site in init_post is an offset from
the start of the section, and not the start of the function init_post.
The mcount relocation is at the call site 0x185 from the start of the
.text section.

  .text + 0x185  == init_post + 0xa

We need a way to add this __mcount_loc section in a way that we do not
lose the relocations after final link.  The .text section here will
be attached to all other .text sections after final link and the
offsets will be meaningless.  We need to keep track of where these
.text sections are.

To do this, we use the start of the first function in the section.
do_one_initcall.  We can make a tmp.s file with this function as a reference
to the start of the .text section.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad do_one_initcall + 0x185
[...]

Then we can compile the tmp.s into a tmp.o

  gcc -c tmp.s -o tmp.o

And link it into back into main.o.

  ld -r main.o tmp.o -o tmp_main.o
  mv tmp_main.o main.o

But we have a problem.  What happens if the first function in a section
is not exported, and is a static function. The linker will not let
the tmp.o use it.  This case exists in main.o as well.

Disassembly of section .init.text:

0000000000000000 <set_reset_devices>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 <set_reset_devices+0x9>
                        5: R_X86_64_PC32        mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc

The first function in .init.text is a static function.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

The lowercase 't' means that set_reset_devices is local and is not exported.
If we simply try to link the tmp.o with the set_reset_devices we end
up with two symbols: one local and one global.

 .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
 .quad set_reset_devices + 0x10

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
                 U set_reset_devices

We still have an undefined reference to set_reset_devices, and if we try
to compile the kernel, we will end up with an undefined reference to
set_reset_devices, or even worst, it could be exported someplace else,
and then we will have a reference to the wrong location.

To handle this case, we make an intermediate step using objcopy.
We convert set_reset_devices into a global exported symbol before linking
it with tmp.o and set it back afterwards.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

Now we have a section in main.o called __mcount_loc that we can place
somewhere in the kernel using vmlinux.ld.S and access it to convert
all these locations that call mcount into nops before starting SMP
and thus, eliminating the need to do this with kstop_machine.

Note, A well documented perl script (scripts/recordmcount.pl) is used
to do all this in one location.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:40 +02:00
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4level-fixup.h add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
atomic.h Christoph has moved 2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
audit_change_attr.h [PATCH] fix missing ifdefs in syscall classes hookup for generic targets 2006-09-22 17:48:56 -07:00
audit_dir_write.h [PATCH] fix missing ifdefs in syscall classes hookup for generic targets 2006-09-22 17:48:56 -07:00
audit_read.h [PATCH] audit: more syscall classes added 2006-09-11 13:32:27 -04:00
audit_signal.h [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3) 2007-05-11 05:38:25 -04:00
audit_write.h [PATCH] audit: more syscall classes added 2006-09-11 13:32:27 -04:00
bitops.h remove __KERNEL__ tests of unexported headers under asm-generic/ 2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
bug.h warn: Turn the netdev timeout WARN_ON() into a WARN() 2008-09-16 19:39:33 -07:00
cmpxchg-local.h Add cmpxchg_local to asm-generic for per cpu atomic operations 2008-02-07 08:42:30 -08:00
cmpxchg.h Add cmpxchg_local to asm-generic for per cpu atomic operations 2008-02-07 08:42:30 -08:00
cputime.h taskstats scaled time cleanup 2008-02-06 10:41:00 -08:00
device.h Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device 2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
div64.h rename div64_64 to div64_u64 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
dma-coherent.h generic: per-device coherent dma allocator 2008-06-30 12:51:05 +02:00
dma-mapping-broken.h dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error() 2008-07-26 12:00:03 -07:00
dma-mapping.h dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error() 2008-07-26 12:00:03 -07:00
emergency-restart.h [PATCH] Add emergency_restart() 2005-07-26 14:35:41 -07:00
errno-base.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
errno.h [PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE version 2 2005-05-01 08:59:06 -07:00
fcntl.h Introduce O_CLOEXEC 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
futex.h remove __KERNEL__ tests of unexported headers under asm-generic/ 2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
gpio.h gpio: fix build on CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=n 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
ide_iops.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
int-l64.h types: add C99-style constructors to <asm-generic/int-*.h> 2008-05-02 16:18:42 -07:00
int-ll64.h asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64 2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
ioctl.h Make ioctl.h compatible with userland 2008-08-12 16:07:31 -07:00
iomap.h generic: add ioremap_wc() interface wrapper 2008-04-24 23:40:47 +02:00
irq_regs.h IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Kbuild types: create <asm-generic/int-*.h> 2008-05-02 16:18:19 -07:00
Kbuild.asm Fix conditional export of kvh.h and a.out.h to userspace. 2008-09-05 15:44:31 +01:00
kdebug.h move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
libata-portmap.h libata-portmap: Remove unused definitions 2007-10-12 14:55:37 -04:00
local.h local_t: architecture independent extension 2007-05-08 11:15:20 -07:00
memory_model.h remove __KERNEL__ tests of unexported headers under asm-generic/ 2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
mm_hooks.h [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction 2007-05-02 19:27:14 +02:00
mman.h [PATCH] Remove final references to deprecated "MAP_ANON" page protection flag 2007-02-11 10:51:17 -08:00
mutex-dec.h asm-generic: remove fastcall 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
mutex-null.h fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
mutex-xchg.h asm-generic: remove fastcall 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
page.h remove __KERNEL__ tests of unexported headers under asm-generic/ 2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
pci-dma-compat.h dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error() 2008-07-26 12:00:03 -07:00
pci.h [PATCH] Make sparc64 use setup-res.c 2005-09-08 14:57:25 -07:00
percpu.h percpu: fix DEBUG_PREEMPT per_cpu checking 2008-02-23 12:09:28 -08:00
pgtable-nopmd.h include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h: macros are noxious, reason #435 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
pgtable-nopud.h add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
pgtable.h mm: fix build on non-mmu machines 2008-07-15 13:58:40 -07:00
poll.h Consolidate asm/poll.h 2007-05-11 08:29:34 -07:00
resource.h sched: SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR watchdog timer 2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
rtc.h rtc: fix deadlock 2008-08-23 18:02:18 +02:00
sections.h lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
siginfo.h signals: demultiplexing SIGTRAP signal 2008-09-23 13:26:52 +02:00
signal.h Add standard include guard to asm-generic/signal and use compiler.h 2006-04-27 06:57:23 +01:00
statfs.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
syscall.h tracehook: comment pasto fixes 2008-09-05 14:39:38 -07:00
termios.h tty: let architectures override the user/kernel macros. 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
tlb.h asm-generic/tlb.h: remove <linux/quicklist.h> 2008-02-04 16:48:00 +01:00
topology.h x86: change _node_to_cpumask_ptr to return const ptr 2008-07-13 19:11:58 +02:00
uaccess.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
vmlinux.lds.h ftrace: create __mcount_loc section 2008-10-14 10:34:40 +02:00
xor.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00