Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 2/6] bpf: introduce BPF dispatcher

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:16:58 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It sounds that you've invented nop5 and kernel's ability
> > to replace nop5 with a jump or call.  
> 
> Actually I did invent it.
> 
>    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20080210072109.GR4100@xxxxxxx/
> 
> 
> I'm the one that introduced the code to convert mcount into the 5 byte nop,
> and did the research and development to make it work at run time. I had one
> hiccup along the way that caused the e1000e network card breakage.
> 
> The "daemon" approach was horrible, and then I created the recordmcount.pl
> perl script to accomplish the same thing at compile time.

I guess you were not paying attention to my talk at the Kernel Recipes I
invited you to in 2019. The talk I gave was the history of how fentry came
about.

  https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2019/talks/ftrace-where-modifying-a-running-kernel-all-started/

 ;-)

-- Steve