Re: [PATCH v5 08/10] module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Andrew worried about the overhead on small systems; only use the fancy
> code when either perf or tracing is enabled.
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
>  kernel/module.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(module_mutex);
>  static LIST_HEAD(modules);
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) || defined(CONFIG_TRACING)
> +
>  /*
>   * Use a latched RB-tree for __module_address(); this allows us to use
>   * RCU-sched lookups of the address from any context.
> @@ -112,6 +114,10 @@ static LIST_HEAD(modules);
>   *
>   * Because init ranges are short lived we mark them unlikely and have placed
>   * them outside the critical cacheline in struct module.
> + *
> + * This is conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING because those can really hit
> + * __module_address() hard by doing a lot of stack unwinding; potentially from
> + * NMI context.

So I think we'd be better off introducing a helper Kconfig bool for 
that, CONFIG_MODULE_LATCHED_LOOKUPS or so, and select that symbol from 
the perf and tracing Kconfig code directly?

Beyond it being a cleaner, self-maintaining construct, that would also 
allow other subsystems to set it as well, without having to modify 
kernel/module.c.

Thanks,

	Ingo