Zong Li 0ff7c3b331 riscv: Use text_mutex instead of patch_lock ...

We don't need the additional lock protection when patching the text.

There are two patching interfaces here:
 - patch_text: patch code and always synchronize with stop_machine()
 - patch_text_nosync: patch code without synchronization, it's caller's
                      responsibility to synchronize all CPUs if needed.

For the first one, stop_machine() is protected by its own mutex, and
also the irq is already disabled here.

For the second one, in risc-v real case now, it would be used to ftrace
patching the mcount function, since it already running under
kstop_machine(), no other thread will run, so we could use text_mutex
on ftrace side.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>

2020-05-18 11:38:16 -07:00

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