ftrace: Make ftrace_location_range() global

In order to support live patching on powerpc we would like to call
ftrace_location_range(), so make it global.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index eca592f..e1b3f23 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1533,7 +1533,19 @@ static int ftrace_cmp_recs(const void *a, const void *b)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static unsigned long ftrace_location_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+/**
+ * ftrace_location_range - return the first address of a traced location
+ *	if it touches the given ip range
+ * @start: start of range to search.
+ * @end: end of range to search (inclusive). @end points to the last byte
+ *	to check.
+ *
+ * Returns rec->ip if the related ftrace location is a least partly within
+ * the given address range. That is, the first address of the instruction
+ * that is either a NOP or call to the function tracer. It checks the ftrace
+ * internal tables to determine if the address belongs or not.
+ */
+unsigned long ftrace_location_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
 	struct ftrace_page *pg;
 	struct dyn_ftrace *rec;