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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:19:07 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] arm64: implement ftrace with regs
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Mark Rutland wrote:

> I guess skipping the original function prologue would simplify the
> implementation of the replacement function (and would mean that the regs
> held the function arguments per the procedure call standard), but AFAICT
> other architectures aren't relying on that, so it doesn't seem to be a
> strict requirement.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> How does livepatching handle the pre-mcount function preambles on
> architectures with existing support?

Other architectures do rely on that. That's exactly for example why on x86 
we use '-pg -mfentry', to make sure we hook the function *before* 
prologue.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs