1 files changed, 64 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index f65ab8b014c4..1849d8036ee8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -641,3 +641,67 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
         return addr;
 }
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
+
+unsigned char ideal_nop5[IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5];
+
+void __init arch_init_ideal_nop5(void)
+{
+        extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_p6nop[];
+        extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_nop5[];
+        extern const unsigned char ftrace_test_jmp[];
+        int faulted = 0;
+
+        /*
+         * There is no good nop for all x86 archs.
+         * We will default to using the P6_NOP5, but first we
+         * will test to make sure that the nop will actually
+         * work on this CPU. If it faults, we will then
+         * go to a lesser efficient 5 byte nop. If that fails
+         * we then just use a jmp as our nop. This isn't the most
+         * efficient nop, but we can not use a multi part nop
+         * since we would then risk being preempted in the middle
+         * of that nop, and if we enabled tracing then, it might
+         * cause a system crash.
+         *
+         * TODO: check the cpuid to determine the best nop.
+         */
+        asm volatile (
+                "ftrace_test_jmp:"
+                "jmp ftrace_test_p6nop\n"
+                "nop\n"
+                "nop\n"
+                "nop\n"  /* 2 byte jmp + 3 bytes */
+                "ftrace_test_p6nop:"
+                P6_NOP5
+                "jmp 1f\n"
+                "ftrace_test_nop5:"
+                ".byte 0x66,0x66,0x66,0x66,0x90\n"
+                "1:"
+                ".section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"
+                "2:     movl $1, %0\n"
+                "       jmp ftrace_test_nop5\n"
+                "3:     movl $2, %0\n"
+                "       jmp 1b\n"
+                ".previous\n"
+                _ASM_EXTABLE(ftrace_test_p6nop, 2b)
+                _ASM_EXTABLE(ftrace_test_nop5, 3b)
+                : "=r"(faulted) : "0" (faulted));
+
+        switch (faulted) {
+        case 0:
+                pr_info("converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00\n");
+                memcpy(ideal_nop5, ftrace_test_p6nop, IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5);
+                break;
+        case 1:
+                pr_info("converting mcount calls to 66 66 66 66 90\n");
+                memcpy(ideal_nop5, ftrace_test_nop5, IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5);
+                break;
+        case 2:
+                pr_info("converting mcount calls to jmp . + 5\n");
+                memcpy(ideal_nop5, ftrace_test_jmp, IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5);
+                break;
+        }
+
+}
+#endif