[PATCH 01/12] powerpc/module: Only try to generate the ftrace_caller() stub once

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Feb 25 01:28:24 AEDT 2016


Currently we generate the module stub for ftrace_caller() at the bottom
of apply_relocate_add(). However apply_relocate_add() is potentially
called more than once per module, which means we will try to generate
the ftrace_caller() stub multiple times.

Although the current code deals with that correctly, ie. it only
generates a stub the first time, it would be clearer to only try to
generate the stub once.

Note also on first reading it may appear that we generate a different
stub for each section that requires relocation, but that is not the
case. The code in stub_for_addr() that searches for an existing stub
uses sechdrs[me->arch.stubs_section], ie. the single stub section for
this module.

A cleaner approach is to only generate the ftrace_caller() stub once,
from module_finalize(). An additional benefit is we can clean the ifdefs
up a little.

Finally we must propagate the const'ness of some of the pointers passed
to module_finalize(), but that is also an improvement.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h |  9 +++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c      |  5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c   | 15 ++++++++++-----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c   | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h
index dcfcad139bcc..74d25a749018 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ bool is_module_trampoline(u32 *insns);
 int module_trampoline_target(struct module *mod, u32 *trampoline,
 			     unsigned long *target);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
+int module_finalize_ftrace(struct module *mod, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs);
+#else
+static inline int module_finalize_ftrace(struct module *mod, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 struct exception_table_entry;
 void sort_ex_table(struct exception_table_entry *start,
 		   struct exception_table_entry *finish);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
index 9547381b631a..d1f1b35bf0c7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
 		const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, struct module *me)
 {
 	const Elf_Shdr *sect;
+	int rc;
+
+	rc = module_finalize_ftrace(me, sechdrs);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
 
 	/* Apply feature fixups */
 	sect = find_section(hdr, sechdrs, "__ftr_fixup");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
index 2c01665eb410..98f698f10956 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
@@ -294,11 +294,16 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf32_Shdr *sechdrs,
 			return -ENOEXEC;
 		}
 	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-	module->arch.tramp =
-		do_plt_call(module->core_layout.base,
-			    (unsigned long)ftrace_caller,
-			    sechdrs, module);
-#endif
+int module_finalize_ftrace(struct module *module, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs)
+{
+	module->arch.tramp = do_plt_call(module->core_layout.base,
+					 (unsigned long)ftrace_caller,
+					 sechdrs, module);
 	return 0;
 }
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index ac64ffdb52c8..599c753c7960 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf64_Ehdr *hdr,
 /* r2 is the TOC pointer: it actually points 0x8000 into the TOC (this
    gives the value maximum span in an instruction which uses a signed
    offset) */
-static inline unsigned long my_r2(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs, struct module *me)
+static inline unsigned long my_r2(const Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs, struct module *me)
 {
 	return sechdrs[me->arch.toc_section].sh_addr + 0x8000;
 }
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static inline unsigned long my_r2(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs, struct module *me)
 #define PPC_HA(v) PPC_HI ((v) + 0x8000)
 
 /* Patch stub to reference function and correct r2 value. */
-static inline int create_stub(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
+static inline int create_stub(const Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 			      struct ppc64_stub_entry *entry,
 			      unsigned long addr,
 			      struct module *me)
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static inline int create_stub(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 
 /* Create stub to jump to function described in this OPD/ptr: we need the
    stub to set up the TOC ptr (r2) for the function. */
-static unsigned long stub_for_addr(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
+static unsigned long stub_for_addr(const Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 				   unsigned long addr,
 				   struct module *me)
 {
@@ -693,12 +693,18 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 		}
 	}
 
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-	me->arch.toc = my_r2(sechdrs, me);
-	me->arch.tramp = stub_for_addr(sechdrs,
-				       (unsigned long)ftrace_caller,
-				       me);
-#endif
+int module_finalize_ftrace(struct module *mod, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs)
+{
+	mod->arch.toc = my_r2(sechdrs, mod);
+	mod->arch.tramp = stub_for_addr(sechdrs, (unsigned long)ftrace_caller, mod);
+
+	if (!mod->arch.tramp)
+		return -ENOENT;
 
 	return 0;
 }
+#endif
-- 
2.5.0



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