From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759607AbYJVVgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757597AbYJVVf4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:35:56 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.123]:54777 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757003AbYJVVfx (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:35:53 -0400 Message-Id: <20081022213551.370747764@goodmis.org> References: <20081022212721.167005680@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:27:23 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , Abhishek Sagar , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt Subject: [PATCH 02/13 v2] ftrace: dynamic ftrace process only text section Content-Disposition: inline; filename=ftrace-record-only-text.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The text section stays in memory without ever leaving. With the exception of modules, but modules know how to handle that case. With the dynamic ftrace tracer, we need to make sure that it does not try to modify code that no longer exists. The only safe section is .text. This patch changes the recordmcount script to only record the mcount calls in the .text sections. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-compile.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl =================================================================== --- linux-compile.git.orig/scripts/recordmcount.pl 2008-10-22 11:45:59.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-compile.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl 2008-10-22 11:46:33.000000000 -0400 @@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ if ($#ARGV < 6) { my ($arch, $bits, $objdump, $objcopy, $cc, $ld, $nm, $rm, $mv, $inputfile) = @ARGV; +# Acceptible sections to record. +my %text_sections = ( + ".text" => 1, +); + $objdump = "objdump" if ((length $objdump) == 0); $objcopy = "objcopy" if ((length $objcopy) == 0); $cc = "gcc" if ((length $cc) == 0); @@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86") { } if ($arch eq "x86_64") { - $section_regex = "Disassembly of section"; + $section_regex = "Disassembly of section\\s+(\\S+):"; $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(.*?)>:"; $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\smcount([+-]0x[0-9a-zA-Z]+)?\$"; $type = ".quad"; @@ -151,7 +156,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") { $cc .= " -m64"; } elsif ($arch eq "i386") { - $section_regex = "Disassembly of section"; + $section_regex = "Disassembly of section\\s+(\\S+):"; $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(.*?)>:"; $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\smcount\$"; $type = ".long"; @@ -298,7 +303,13 @@ my $text; while () { # is it a section? if (/$section_regex/) { - $read_function = 1; + + # Only record text sections that we know are safe + if (defined($text_sections{$1})) { + $read_function = 1; + } else { + $read_function = 0; + } # print out any recorded offsets update_funcs() if ($text_found); --