powerpc: Enable jump label support
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tue, 22 May 2012 17:58:41 +0000 (17:58 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 3 Jul 2012 04:14:40 +0000 (14:14 +1000)
When looking through some instruction traces I noticed our tracepoint
checks were inline. It turns out we don't have CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL
enabled.

By enabling CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL we replace a load/compare/branch with
a nop at every tracepoint call. For example in do_IRQ:

CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL disabled:
        stdx 3,11,9
        lwz 0,8(29)
        cmpwi 7,0,0
        bne- 7,.L124
        bl .irq_enter

CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL enabled:
        stdx 3,11,9
        nop
        bl .irq_enter

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig
arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig

index c1442a3..273e2bd 100644 (file)
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
 CONFIG_KPROBES=y
+CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
 CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
index 6608232..187fb8d 100644 (file)
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
 CONFIG_KPROBES=y
+CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
 CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y