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Masami Hiramatsu afd66255b9 kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization
Introduce kprobes jump optimization arch-independent parts.
Kprobes uses breakpoint instruction for interrupting execution
flow, on some architectures, it can be replaced by a jump
instruction and interruption emulation code. This gains kprobs'
performance drastically.

To enable this feature, set CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y (default y if the
arch supports OPTPROBE).

Changes in v9:
 - Fix a bug to optimize probe when enabling.
 - Check nearby probes can be optimize/unoptimize when disarming/arming
   kprobes, instead of registering/unregistering. This will help
   kprobe-tracer because most of probes on it are usually disabled.

Changes in v6:
 - Cleanup coding style for readability.
 - Add comments around get/put_online_cpus().

Changes in v5:
 - Use get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() for avoiding text_mutex
   deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133407.6725.81992.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 17:49:24 +01:00
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alpha alpha: cpumask_of_node() should handle -1 as a node 2010-01-14 13:21:35 -05:00
arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2010-01-25 18:56:12 -08:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
blackfin blackfin,kgdb: Do not put PC in gdb_regs into retx. 2010-01-07 11:58:37 -06:00
cris Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
frv FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack 2010-01-06 18:16:02 -08:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
ia64 kprobes: Disable booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y 2010-02-04 09:36:18 +01:00
m32r elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP 2009-12-16 07:20:12 -08:00
m68k m68knommu: fix definitions of __pa() and __va() 2010-01-12 20:51:45 -08:00
m68knommu m68knommu: fix invalid flags on coldfire pit clocksource 2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
microblaze microblaze: pci_controller->arch_data really is a struct device_node * 2010-01-18 16:36:07 +01:00
mips MIPS: Ignore vmlinux.* 2010-01-12 18:19:38 +01:00
mn10300 mn10300: update the ASB2303 defconfig 2010-01-11 09:34:10 -08:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2010-01-29 10:36:22 +01:00
s390 KVM: S390: fix potential array overrun in intercept handling 2010-01-25 12:26:39 -02:00
score mm: make totalhigh_pages unsigned long 2010-01-11 09:34:03 -08:00
sh Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2010-01-29 10:36:22 +01:00
sparc sparc64: Fix IRQ ->set_affinity() methods. 2010-01-20 19:30:49 -08:00
um Unrot uml mconsole a bit 2010-01-14 09:05:26 -05:00
x86 kprobes/x86: Cleanup RELATIVEJUMP_INSTRUCTION to RELATIVEJUMP_OPCODE 2010-02-25 17:49:24 +01:00
xtensa Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
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Kconfig kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization 2010-02-25 17:49:24 +01:00