From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:34:07 +0000 (-0500) Subject: kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc1~197^2~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=afd66255b9a48f5851326ddae50e2203fbf71dc9;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Anders Kaseorg Cc: Tim Abbott Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli LKML-Reference: <20100225133407.6725.81992.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed