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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>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.