On 07/10/2013 04:25 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a resurrection of a few years old idea to have jump labels use
> synchronization based on int3 breakpoint rather than relying on
> stop_machine() with all the consequences.
>
> ftrace has been doing exactly this kind of patching for year since
> 08d636b6 ("ftrace/x86: Have arch x86_64 use breakpoints instead of stop
> machine").
>
> This patchset first introduces generic text_poke_bp() that provides means
> to perform this method of patching in parallel to text_poke_smp(), and
> then converts x86 jump label code to use it.
>
> If this is merged, I'll do a followup patch converting ftrace to use this
> infrastructure as well, as it's doing the same thing in principle already.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
Cool. This definitely an area I've wanted to improve with jump labels.
Perhaps, ftrace should be considered at this point to make sure the
interface is suitable for both callers?
Also, I wonder if its worth batching up updates. For example, right now
we simply update each call-site
one at a time even if its associated with the same control variable.
Thanks,
-Jason
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