powerpc/kprobes: Prefer ftrace when probing function entry
KPROBES_ON_FTRACE avoids much of the overhead of regular kprobes as it eliminates the need for a trap, as well as the need to emulate or single-step instructions. Though OPTPROBES provides us with similar performance, we have limited optprobes trampoline slots. As such, when asked to probe at a function entry, default to using the ftrace infrastructure. With: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'p _do_fork' > kprobe_events before patch: # cat ../kprobes/list c0000000000daf08 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED] c000000000044fc0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED] and after patch: # cat ../kprobes/list c0000000000d074c k _do_fork+0xc [DISABLED][FTRACE] c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED] Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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