ftrace: Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_JMP

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For now, the "nop" will be replaced with a "call" instruction when a
function is hooked by the ftrace. However, sometimes the "call" can break
the RSB and introduce extra overhead. Therefore, introduce the flag
FTRACE_OPS_FL_JMP, which indicate that the ftrace_ops should be called
with a "jmp" instead of "call". For now, it is only used by the direct
call case.

When a direct ftrace_ops is marked with FTRACE_OPS_FL_JMP, the last bit of
the ops->direct_call will be set to 1. Therefore, we can tell if we should
use "jmp" for the callback in ftrace_call_replace().

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@chinatelecom.cn>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118123639.688444-2-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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Menglong Dong 2025-11-18 20:36:29 +08:00 • committed by Alexei Starovoitov

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