Hi Mark,
On 10/29/19 10:28 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
Architectures may need to perform special initialization of ftrace
callsites, and today they do so by special-casing ftrace_make_nop() when
the expected branch address is MCOUNT_ADDR. In some cases (e.g. for
patchable-function-entry), we don't have an mcount-like symbol and don't
s/an mcount/a mcount.
want a synthetic MCOUNT_ADDR, but we may need to perform some
initialization of callsites.
To make it possible to separate initialization from runtime
modification, and to handle cases without an mcount-like symbol, this
Same as above.
patch adds an optional ftrace_init_nop() function that architectures can
implement, which does not pass a branch address.
Where an architecture does not provide ftrace_init_nop(), we will fall
back to the existing behaviour of calling ftrace_make_nop() with
MCOUNT_ADDR.
At the same time, ftrace_code_disable() is renamed to
ftrace_nop_initialize() to make it clearer that it is intended to
intialize a callsite into a disabled state, and is not for disabling a
callsite that has been runtime enabled. The kerneldoc description of rec
arguments is updated to cover non-mcount callsites.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ftrace.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 8a8cb3c401b2..9867d90d635e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static inline int ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller(void) { return 0; }
/**
* ftrace_make_nop - convert code into nop
* @mod: module structure if called by module load initialization
- * @rec: the mcount call site record
+ * @rec: the call site record (e.g. mcount/fentry)
* @addr: the address that the call site should be calling
*
* This is a very sensitive operation and great care needs
@@ -520,9 +520,38 @@ static inline int ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller(void) { return 0; }
extern int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr);
+
+/**
+ * ftrace_init_nop - initialize a nop call site
+ * @mod: module structure if called by module load initialization
+ * @rec: the call site record (e.g. mcount/fentry)
+ *
+ * This is a very sensitive operation and great care needs
+ * to be taken by the arch. The operation should carefully
+ * read the location, check to see if what is read is indeed
+ * what we expect it to be, and then on success of the compare,
+ * it should write to the location.
+ *
+ * The code segment at @rec->ip should contain the contents created by
+ * the compiler
Nit: Will it be better to write it as "@rec->ip should store the
adjusted ftrace entry address of the call site" or something like that.
+ *
+ * Return must be:
+ * 0 on success
+ * -EFAULT on error reading the location
+ * -EINVAL on a failed compare of the contents
+ * -EPERM on error writing to the location
+ * Any other value will be considered a failure.
+ */
+#ifndef ftrace_init_nop
+static inline int ftrace_init_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
+{
+ return ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, MCOUNT_ADDR);
+}
+#endif
+
Now that ftrace_init_nop is also an arch implemented function so it may
be added in Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst along with
ftrace_make_nop.
In general also, adding some description about patchable-function-entry
in kernel Documentation will be useful.
Thanks,
Amit Daniel
/**
* ftrace_make_call - convert a nop call site into a call to addr
- * @rec: the mcount call site record
+ * @rec: the call site record (e.g. mcount/fentry)
* @addr: the address that the call site should call
*
* This is a very sensitive operation and great care needs
@@ -545,7 +574,7 @@ extern int ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr);
#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
/**
* ftrace_modify_call - convert from one addr to another (no nop)
- * @rec: the mcount call site record
+ * @rec: the call site record (e.g. mcount/fentry)
* @old_addr: the address expected to be currently called to
* @addr: the address to change to
*
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index f296d89be757..5259d4dea675 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2494,14 +2494,14 @@ struct dyn_ftrace *ftrace_rec_iter_record(struct ftrace_rec_iter *iter)
}
static int
-ftrace_code_disable(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
+ftrace_nop_initialize(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
{
int ret;
if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))
return 0;
- ret = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, MCOUNT_ADDR);
+ ret = ftrace_init_nop(mod, rec);
if (ret) {
ftrace_bug_type = FTRACE_BUG_INIT;
ftrace_bug(ret, rec);
@@ -2943,7 +2943,7 @@ static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod, struct ftrace_page *new_pgs)
* to the NOP instructions.
*/
if (!__is_defined(CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT) &&
- !ftrace_code_disable(mod, p))
+ !ftrace_nop_initialize(mod, p))
break;
update_cnt++;
