[RFC PATCH -next v2 3/4] arm64/ftrace: support dynamically allocated trampolines

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Wed May 25 06:43:07 PDT 2022


On Wed, 25 May 2022 13:17:30 +0100
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:

> For arm64 I'd like to make this static, and have ftrace *always* capture a
> minimal set of ftrace_regs, which would be:
> 
>   X0 to X8 inclusive
>   SP
>   PC
>   LR
>   FP
> 
> Since X0 to X8 + SP is all that we need for arguments and return values (per
> the calling convention we use), and PC+LR+FP gives us everything we need for
> unwinding and live patching.
> 
> I *might* want to add x18 to that when SCS is enabled, but I'm not immediately
> sure.

Does arm64 have HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled? If so, then having
the normal ftrace call back save the above so that all functions have it
available would be useful.

-- Steve




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