ftrace: remove struct list_head from struct dyn_ftrace

Impact: save memory

The struct dyn_ftrace table is very large, this patch will save
about 50%.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49BA2C9F.8020009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index bf78a4c75c67..90d5729afeff 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ enum {
 
 static int ftrace_filtered;
 
-static LIST_HEAD(ftrace_new_addrs);
+static struct dyn_ftrace *ftrace_new_addrs;
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(ftrace_regex_lock);
 
@@ -409,8 +409,8 @@ ftrace_record_ip(unsigned long ip)
                 return NULL;
 
         rec->ip = ip;
-
-        list_add(&rec->list, &ftrace_new_addrs);
+        rec->flags = (unsigned long)ftrace_new_addrs;
+        ftrace_new_addrs = rec;
 
         return rec;
 }
@@ -716,19 +716,21 @@ unsigned long		ftrace_update_tot_cnt;
 
 static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod)
 {
-        struct dyn_ftrace *p, *t;
+        struct dyn_ftrace *p;
         cycle_t start, stop;
 
         start = ftrace_now(raw_smp_processor_id());
         ftrace_update_cnt = 0;
 
-        list_for_each_entry_safe(p, t, &ftrace_new_addrs, list) {
+        while (ftrace_new_addrs) {
 
                 /* If something went wrong, bail without enabling anything */
                 if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))
                         return -1;
 
-                list_del_init(&p->list);
+                p = ftrace_new_addrs;
+                ftrace_new_addrs = (struct dyn_ftrace *)p->flags;
+                p->flags = 0L;
 
                 /* convert record (i.e, patch mcount-call with NOP) */
                 if (ftrace_code_disable(mod, p)) {