[PATCHv5] arm: ftrace: Adds support for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS

Abel Vesa abelvesa at gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 14:09:07 PDT 2017


On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 02:02:17PM +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 12:51:12AM +0000, Abel Vesa wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
> > index c73c403..93f9abb 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
> > @@ -92,12 +92,78 @@
> >  2:	mcount_exit
> >  .endm
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
> > +
> > +.macro __ftrace_regs_caller
> > +
> > +	sub	sp, sp, #8	@ space for CPSR and OLD_R0 (not used)
> > +
> > +	add 	ip, sp, #12	@ move in IP the value of SP as it was
> > +				@ before the push {lr} of the mcount mechanism
> > +	stmdb	sp!, {ip,lr,pc}
> 
> This doesn't build with CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL:
> 
> entry-ftrace.S:285: Error: PC not allowed in register list -- `stmdb sp!,{ip,lr,pc}'
> 
> Saving PC in STMDB is prohibited in Thumb and deprecated in ARM.
> 
> > +	stmdb	sp!, {r0-r11,lr}
> > +
> > +	ldr	r0, [sp, #S_LR]			@ replace PC with LR
> > +	str	r0, [sp, #S_PC]			@ into pt_regs
> > +
> > +	ldr	r1, [sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE] 	@ replace new LR with
> > +	str	r1, [sp, #S_LR]			@ previous LR into pt_regs
> > +
> > +	@ stack content at this point:
> > +	@ 0  4          48   52       56            60   64    68       72
> > +	@ R0 | R1 | ... | LR | SP + 4 | previous LR | LR | PSR | OLD_R0 | previous LR |
> 
> So this code only adjust the SP by 72 bytes.  Since the stack is not
> aligned to 8 bytes at entry to mcount, this code calls into C functions
> with a misaligned stack.  This is a violation of the procedure call
> standard.
> 
> Also, I believe this should have unwind annotations to indicate where it
> saved the registers.  See mcount_enter for an example.
> 
> > +
> > +	mov r3, sp				@ struct pt_regs*
> > +	ldr r2, =function_trace_op
> > +	ldr r2, [r2]				@ pointer to the current
> > +						@ function tracing op
> > +	ldr	r1, [sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE]		@ lr of instrumented func
> > +	mcount_adjust_addr	r0, lr		@ instrumented function
> > +
> > +	.globl ftrace_regs_call
> > +ftrace_regs_call:
> > +	bl	ftrace_stub
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> > +	.globl ftrace_graph_regs_call
> > +ftrace_graph_regs_call:
> > +	mov	r0, r0
> > +#endif
> > +	@ pop saved regs
> > +	ldmia   sp, {r0-r15}
> 
> This doesn't build either:
> 
> entry-ftrace.S:285: Error: LR and PC should not both be in register list -- `ldmia sp,{r0-r15}'
> 
> Restoring LR and PC together is prohibited in Thumb and deprecated in
> ARM.  It's the same case with SP.
> 
We could do it in separate instructions, something like:
        @ pop saved regs      
        ldmia   sp!, {r0-r12} 
        ldr     ip, [sp, #8]  
        ldr     lr, [sp, #4]  
        ldr     sp, [sp, #0]  
        mov     pc, ip        

Same goes for saving the regs, except I need to replace the LR stored outside of ftrace_regs_caller
with  OLD_R0 so that the stack would become aligned to 8 bytes.
> > +.endm
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> > +.macro __ftrace_graph_regs_caller
> > +
> > +	sub	r0, fp, #4		@ lr of instrumented routine (parent)
> > +
> > +	@ called from __ftrace_regs_caller
> > +	ldr     r1, [sp, #S_PC]		@ instrumented routine (func)
> > +	mcount_adjust_addr	r1, r1
> > +
> > +	mov	r2, fp			@ frame pointer
> > +	bl	prepare_ftrace_return
> > +
> > +	@ pop registers saved in ftrace_regs_caller
> > +	ldmia   sp, {r0-r15}
> 
> This doesn't get built on CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL since there's no suppport
> for CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER there, but this is also using
> deprecated operands.
> 
> > +.endm
> > +#endif
> > +#endif
> ...
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
> > index 3f17594..f165265 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
> > @@ -29,11 +29,6 @@
> >  #endif
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT
> > -#define OLD_MCOUNT_ADDR	((unsigned long) mcount)
> > -#define OLD_FTRACE_ADDR ((unsigned long) ftrace_caller_old)
> > -
> > -#define	OLD_NOP		0xe1a00000	/* mov r0, r0 */
> >  
> >  static int __ftrace_modify_code(void *data)
> >  {
> > @@ -51,6 +46,12 @@ void arch_ftrace_update_code(int command)
> >  	stop_machine(__ftrace_modify_code, &command, NULL);
> >  }
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT
> > +#define OLD_MCOUNT_ADDR	((unsigned long) mcount)
> > +#define OLD_FTRACE_ADDR ((unsigned long) ftrace_caller_old)
> > +
> > +#define	OLD_NOP		0xe1a00000	/* mov r0, r0 */
> > +
> >  static unsigned long ftrace_nop_replace(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
> 
> This chunk above fixes the problem which Nicolai pointed out earlier.  Since
> it's a bug fix for the current dynamic ftrace code, it should really be
> submitted as a separate patch.  Feel free to use some variant of this
> commit message which I wrote when I ran into this yesterday:
> 
>  ARM: ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace with DEBUG_RODATA and !FRAME_POINTER
>  
>  The support for dynamic ftrace with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA involves
>  overriding the weak arch_ftrace_update_code() with a variant which makes
>  the kernel text writable around the patching.
>  
>  This override was however added under the CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT ifdef, and
>  CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT is only enabled if frame pointers are enabled.
>  
>  This leads to non-functional dynamic ftrace (ftrace triggers a
>  WARN_ON()) when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is enabled and CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
>  is not.
>  
>  Move the override out of that ifdef and into the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>  ifdef where it belongs.
> 
>  Fixes: 80d6b0c2eed2a ("ARM: mm: allow text and rodata sections to be read-only")
> 
Sent as a separate patch already.
> >  {
> >  	return rec->arch.old_mcount ? OLD_NOP : NOP;
> > @@ -139,6 +140,15 @@ int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func)
> >  
> >  	ret = ftrace_modify_code(pc, 0, new, false);
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
> 
> This code (and the rest of your additions to this file below), are already
> under CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE and afaics CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is
> always enabled when the former is enabled, so could you please drop
> these ifdefs?
> 
> The code in entry-ftrace.S under CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS would
> also benefit from just using CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE everywhere instead.
I believe this is incorrect, I think it is worth being compiled in only if
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS, but this is dependent on CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
and the first one is not necessarily enabled if the second one is. Otherwise, what's
the point of having two CONFIGs ?



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