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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h index 07aa8791cbfe..33469ae3612c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h @@ -5,12 +5,23 @@ #include <asm/text-patching.h> /* + * For CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, this is a temporary trampoline which + * uses the current value of the key->func pointer to do an indirect jump to + * the function. This trampoline is only used during boot, before the call + * sites get patched by static_call_update(). The name of this trampoline has + * a magical aspect: objtool uses it to find static call sites so it can create + * the .static_call_sites section. + * * For CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL, this is a permanent trampoline which * does a direct jump to the function. The direct jump gets patched by * static_call_update(). + * + * Having the trampoline in a special section forces GCC to emit a JMP.d32 when + * it does tail-call optimization on the call; since you cannot compute the + * relative displacement across sections. */ #define ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP(name, func) \ - asm(".pushsection .text, \"ax\" \n" \ + asm(".pushsection .static_call.text, \"ax\" \n" \ ".align 4 \n" \ ".globl " STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_STR(name) " \n" \ STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_STR(name) ": \n" \ |