My apologies for the size of this commit. I combined these two features
(updating API and using a hash table) into a single commit because their
implementations are tightly coupled and I didn't want to have to add
support for the old kpatch_funcs array with the new API just for the
sake of splitting up the commit :-)
- Update the core module API to get a more clear separation between core
module and patch module. This is cleaner and will help our case for
getting the core module merged upstream into the kernel.
- Convert the old kpatch_funcs array into a hash table. This is so much
nicer performance-wise and everything-else-wise than that ugly old
array.
- Do the incremental patching in stop machine. This ensures that the
funcs hash is up to date and we don't miss anything.
- Disable preemption in the ftrace handler when accessing the func hash.
That way we don't get conflicts with the stop_machine handler updating
the hash.
Josh Poimboeuf