Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7][RFC] powerpc64, tracing: add function graph tracer with dynamic tracing

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:15:09 +1100

> @@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ static unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned
> long ip, unsigned long addr)
>  	 */
>  	addr = GET_ADDR(addr);
>  
> -	/* Set to "bl addr" */
> -	op = 0x48000001 | (ftrace_calc_offset(ip, addr) & 0x03fffffc);
> +	/* if (link) set op to 'bl' else 'b' */
> +	op = 0x48000000 | (link ? 1 : 0);
> +	op |= (ftrace_calc_offset(ip, addr) & 0x03fffffc);

Any reason why you aren't using the code in
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c here ?

> 	new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, stub, 0);
> +	memcpy(old, new, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE);
> +	new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, addr, 0);
> +
> +	return ftrace_modify_code(ip, old, new);
> +}

Heh, memcpy of 4 bytes :-) I hope gcc is smart enough to turn that into
a simple load/store ..

Cheers,
Ben.