[PATCH V11 0/5] riscv: Optimize function trace

[Björn Töpel]

Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org> writes:

> Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:11:08 PDT (-0700), bjorn at kernel.org wrote:
>>> Song Shuai <suagrfillet at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Add WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support [3] (patch 3, 4)
>>>> ==============================================
>>>
>>> We've had some offlist discussions, so here's some input for a wider
>>> audience! Most importantly, this is for Palmer, so that this series is
>>> not merged until a proper BPF trampoline fix is in place.
>>>
>>> Note that what's currently usable from BPF trampoline *works*. It's
>>> when this series is added that it breaks.
>>>
>>> TL;DR This series adds DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS, which enables
>>> fentry/fexit BPF trampoline support. Unfortunately the
>>> fexit/BPF_TRAMP_F_SKIP_FRAME parts of the RV BPF trampoline breaks
>>> with this addition, and need to be addressed *prior* merging this
>>> series. An easy way to reproduce, is just calling any of the kselftest
>>> tests that uses fexit patching.
>>>
>>> The issue is around the nop seld, and how a call is done; The nop sled
>>> (patchable-function-entry) size changed from 16B to 8B in commit
>>> 6724a76cff85 ("riscv: ftrace: Reduce the detour code size to half"), but
>>> BPF code still uses the old 16B. So it'll work for BPF programs, but not
>>> for regular kernel functions.
>>>
>>> An example:
>>>
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4150 <bpf_fentry_test1>:
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4150:       0001                    nop
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4152:       0001                    nop
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4154:       0001                    nop
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4156:       0001                    nop
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4158:       1141                    add     sp,sp,-16
>>>   | ffffffff80fa415a:       e422                    sd      s0,8(sp)
>>>   | ffffffff80fa415c:       0800                    add     s0,sp,16
>>>   | ffffffff80fa415e:       6422                    ld      s0,8(sp)
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4160:       2505                    addw    a0,a0,1
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4162:       0141                    add     sp,sp,16
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4164:       8082                    ret
>>>
>>> is patched to:
>>>
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4150:  f70c0297                     auipc   t0,-150208512
>>>   | ffffffff80fa4154:  eb0282e7                     jalr    t0,t0,-336
>>>
>>> The return address to bpf_fentry_test1 is stored in t0 at BPF
>>> trampoline entry. Return to the *parent* is in ra. The trampline has
>>> to deal with this.
>>>
>>> For BPF_TRAMP_F_SKIP_FRAME/CALL_ORIG, the BPF trampoline will skip too
>>> many bytes, and not correctly handle parent calls.
>>>
>>> Further; The BPF trampoline currently has a different way of patching
>>> the nops for BPF programs, than what ftrace does. That should be changed
>>> to match what ftrace does (auipc/jalr t0).
>>>
>>> To summarize:
>>>  * Align BPF nop sled with patchable-function-entry: 8B.
>>>  * Adapt BPF trampoline for 8B nop sleds.
>>>  * Adapt BPF trampoline t0 return, ra parent scheme.
>>
>> Thanks for digging into this one, I agree we need to sort out the BPF 
>> breakages before we merge this.  Sounds like there's a rabbit hole here, 
>> but hopefully we can get it sorted out.
>>
>> I've dropped this from patchwork and such, as we'll need at least 
>> another spin.
>
> Palmer,
>
> The needed BPF patch is upstream in the bpf-next tree, and has been for
> a couple of weeks.
>
> I think this series is a candidate for RISC-V -next! It would help
> RISC-V BPF a lot in terms of completeness.

Palmer,

The needed fix for BPF is now in Linus' tree, commit 25ad10658dc1
("riscv, bpf: Adapt bpf trampoline to optimized riscv ftrace
framework"). IOW, this ftrace series can be merged now.


Björn