arm64: ftrace: stop using kstop_machine to enable/disable tracing
authorLi Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Fri, 4 Dec 2015 03:38:39 +0000 (11:38 +0800)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:03:25 +0000 (12:03 +0000)
commit81a6a146e88eca5d6726569779778d61489d85aa
treed5c26b2e23bae83c1e7fa8ae5475c2d46ca069f8
parentd86b8da04dfa4771a68bdbad6c424d40f22f0d14
arm64: ftrace: stop using kstop_machine to enable/disable tracing

For ftrace on arm64, kstop_machine which is hugely disruptive
to a running system is not needed to convert nops to ftrace calls
or back, because that to be modified instrucions, that NOP, B or BL,
are all safe instructions which called "concurrent modification
and execution of instructions", that can be executed by one
thread of execution as they are being modified by another thread
of execution without requiring explicit synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c