static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:57:42 +0000 (15:57 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 1 Sep 2020 07:58:04 +0000 (09:58 +0200)
commit9183c3f9ed710a8edf1a61e8a96d497258d26e08
treeb3434e44f45bb98d2decb831e77c3e2c48329663
parent115284d89a436e9b66da0c6c4f6efded806874b2
static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure

Add infrastructure for an arch-specific CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
option, which is a faster version of CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL.  At
runtime, the static call sites are patched directly, rather than using
the out-of-line trampolines.

Compared to out-of-line static calls, the performance benefits are more
modest, but still measurable.  Steven Rostedt did some tracepoint
measurements:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181126155405.72b4f718@gandalf.local.home

This code is heavily inspired by the jump label code (aka "static
jumps"), as some of the concepts are very similar.

For more details, see the comments in include/linux/static_call.h.

[peterz: simplified interface; merged trampolines]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.684334440@infradead.org
arch/Kconfig
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
include/linux/module.h
include/linux/static_call.h
include/linux/static_call_types.h
kernel/Makefile
kernel/module.c
kernel/static_call.c [new file with mode: 0644]