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| author | Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> | 2019-10-16 13:33:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2019-11-04 09:33:15 -0500 |
| commit | 7162431dcf72032835d369c8d7b51311df407938 (patch) | |
| tree | 194454e629a477bba5410fc5eab3303c5c089de4 /include | |
| parent | a99d8080aaf358d5d23581244e5da23b35e340b9 (diff) | |
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ftrace: Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag
Livepatch uses ftrace for redirection to new patched functions. It means
that if ftrace is disabled, all live patched functions are disabled as
well. Toggling global 'ftrace_enabled' sysctl thus affect it directly.
It is not a problem per se, because only administrator can set sysctl
values, but it still may be surprising.
Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag to amend this. If the
FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT is set on any ftrace ops, the tracing cannot be
disabled by disabling ftrace_enabled. Equally, a callback with the flag
set cannot be registered if ftrace_enabled is disabled.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016113316.13415-2-mbenes@suse.cz
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ftrace.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index 8a8cb3c401b2..8385cafe4f9f 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ ftrace_func_t ftrace_ops_get_func(struct ftrace_ops *ops); * PID - Is affected by set_ftrace_pid (allows filtering on those pids) * RCU - Set when the ops can only be called when RCU is watching. * TRACE_ARRAY - The ops->private points to a trace_array descriptor. + * PERMANENT - Set when the ops is permanent and should not be affected by + * ftrace_enabled. */ enum { FTRACE_OPS_FL_ENABLED = 1 << 0, @@ -160,6 +162,7 @@ enum { FTRACE_OPS_FL_PID = 1 << 13, FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU = 1 << 14, FTRACE_OPS_FL_TRACE_ARRAY = 1 << 15, + FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT = 1 << 16, }; #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE |