[PATCH V4 1/7] riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption

guoren at kernel.org guoren at kernel.org
Mon Nov 28 19:32:24 PST 2022


From: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu at sifive.com>

In RISCV, we must use an AUIPC + JALR pair to encode an immediate,
forming a jump that jumps to an address over 4K. This may cause errors
if we want to enable kernel preemption and remove dependency from
patching code with stop_machine(). For example, if a task was switched
out on auipc. And, if we changed the ftrace function before it was
switched back, then it would jump to an address that has updated 11:0
bits mixing with previous XLEN:12 part.

p: patched area performed by dynamic ftrace
ftrace_prologue:
p|      REG_S   ra, -SZREG(sp)
p|      auipc   ra, 0x? ------------> preempted
					...
				change ftrace function
					...
p|      jalr    -?(ra) <------------- switched back
p|      REG_L   ra, -SZREG(sp)
func:
	xxx
	ret

Fixes: afc76b8b8011 ("riscv: Using PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY instead of MCOUNT")
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu at sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at kernel.org>
---
@Andy, could you give the patch a Signed-off-by? I just copy your most
important comment, so the first author should be you. First, let's fix
the problem caused by my previous patch, and you can continue your
ftrace preemption work.
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 7cd981f96f48..1d0e5838b11b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ config ARCH_RV64I
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL
+	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
 	select SWIOTLB if MMU
 
 endchoice
-- 
2.36.1




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