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authorZong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>2020-04-21 15:30:01 +0800
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>2020-05-18 11:38:16 -0700
commit0ff7c3b331276f584bde3ae9a16bacd8fa3d01e6 (patch)
tree24a3643591160902f453747ebc0d8f457ad86673 /kernel
parent5303df244cbf2d9e5d37816c91c595a7afb7649a (diff)
riscv: Use text_mutex instead of patch_lock
We don't need the additional lock protection when patching the text. There are two patching interfaces here: - patch_text: patch code and always synchronize with stop_machine() - patch_text_nosync: patch code without synchronization, it's caller's responsibility to synchronize all CPUs if needed. For the first one, stop_machine() is protected by its own mutex, and also the irq is already disabled here. For the second one, in risc-v real case now, it would be used to ftrace patching the mcount function, since it already running under kstop_machine(), no other thread will run, so we could use text_mutex on ftrace side. Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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