[PATCH v5 10/13] samples: ftrace: Make the direct-call trampolines Tasks Trace readers

Josef Bacik josef at toxicpanda.com
Mon Sep 21 19:23:29 PDT 2026


The sample direct trampolines are exactly the kind of out-of-line
register_ftrace_direct() user whose lifetime depends on Tasks RCU
waiting for a task inside them: nothing else stops rmmod while a task is
preempted in my_direct_func().  On HAVE_RCU_TRAMPOLINE_READERS
architectures that wait only covers Tasks Trace RCU readers, so give the
samples a small shared header with rcu_read_lock_trace() and
rcu_read_unlock_trace() open-coded as instruction strings for x86-64 and
arm64 -- the same sequences as ftrace_64.S and entry-ftrace.S, using
caller-saved non-argument scratch registers -- and bracket every
call-out with them.  The instructions outside the bracket are module
text, covered by ftrace_direct_mark_module().  Other architectures get
empty definitions.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef at toxicpanda.com>
---
 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c       |   9 ++
 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c |   9 ++
 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi.c        |   5 ++
 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c          |   5 ++
 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c              |   5 ++
 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.h              | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 159 insertions(+)

diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c
index 164d9dd6fd92..937c8d8c2a1b 100644
--- a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include "ftrace-direct.h"
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 #endif
@@ -73,7 +74,9 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	call my_direct_func1\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp1, .-my_tramp1\n"
@@ -85,7 +88,9 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	call my_direct_func2\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp2, .-my_tramp2\n"
@@ -141,11 +146,13 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp1\n"
 "   my_tramp1:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #16\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	bl	my_direct_func1\n"
 "	ldp	x30, x9, [sp]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #16\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp1, .-my_tramp1\n"
 
@@ -153,11 +160,13 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp2\n"
 "   my_tramp2:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #16\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	bl	my_direct_func2\n"
 "	ldp	x30, x9, [sp]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #16\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp2, .-my_tramp2\n"
 "	.popsection\n"
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c
index b03766c6217b..e12e5c8b83f0 100644
--- a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include "ftrace-direct.h"
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 #endif
@@ -77,10 +78,12 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	pushq %rdi\n"
 "	movq 8(%rbp), %rdi\n"
 "	call my_direct_func1\n"
 "	popq %rdi\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp1, .-my_tramp1\n"
@@ -92,10 +95,12 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	pushq %rdi\n"
 "	movq 8(%rbp), %rdi\n"
 "	call my_direct_func2\n"
 "	popq %rdi\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp2, .-my_tramp2\n"
@@ -154,6 +159,7 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp1\n"
 "   my_tramp1:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #32\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	str	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
@@ -162,6 +168,7 @@ asm (
 "	ldp	x30, x9, [sp]\n"
 "	ldr	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #32\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp1, .-my_tramp1\n"
 
@@ -169,6 +176,7 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp2\n"
 "   my_tramp2:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #32\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	str	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
@@ -177,6 +185,7 @@ asm (
 "	ldp	x30, x9, [sp]\n"
 "	ldr	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #32\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp2, .-my_tramp2\n"
 "	.popsection\n"
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi.c b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi.c
index 3fe6ddaf0b69..a970464ed378 100644
--- a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi.c
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/mm.h> /* for handle_mm_fault() */
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include "ftrace-direct.h"
 #include <linux/sched/stat.h>
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
@@ -56,10 +57,12 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	pushq %rdi\n"
 "	movq 8(%rbp), %rdi\n"
 "	call my_direct_func\n"
 "	popq %rdi\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp, .-my_tramp\n"
@@ -101,6 +104,7 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp\n"
 "   my_tramp:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #32\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	str	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
@@ -109,6 +113,7 @@ asm (
 "	ldp	x30, x9, [sp]\n"
 "	ldr	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #32\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp, .-my_tramp\n"
 "	.popsection\n"
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c
index bf2411aa6fd7..abc098c2ab7a 100644
--- a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/mm.h> /* for handle_mm_fault() */
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include "ftrace-direct.h"
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 #endif
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	pushq %rdi\n"
 "	pushq %rsi\n"
 "	pushq %rdx\n"
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ asm (
 "	popq %rdx\n"
 "	popq %rsi\n"
 "	popq %rdi\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp, .-my_tramp\n"
@@ -110,6 +113,7 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp\n"
 "   my_tramp:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #48\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	stp	x0, x1, [sp, #16]\n"
@@ -119,6 +123,7 @@ asm (
 "	ldp	x0, x1, [sp, #16]\n"
 "	ldp	x2, x3, [sp, #32]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #48\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp, .-my_tramp\n"
 "	.popsection\n"
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c
index 5368c8c39cbb..99b65ad2fccc 100644
--- a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/sched.h> /* for wake_up_process() */
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include "ftrace-direct.h"
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 #endif
@@ -54,9 +55,11 @@ asm (
 "	pushq %rbp\n"
 "	movq %rsp, %rbp\n"
 	CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	pushq %rdi\n"
 "	call my_direct_func\n"
 "	popq %rdi\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	leave\n"
 	ASM_RET
 "	.size		my_tramp, .-my_tramp\n"
@@ -97,6 +100,7 @@ asm (
 "	.globl		my_tramp\n"
 "   my_tramp:"
 "	hint	34\n" // bti	c
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
 "	sub	sp, sp, #32\n"
 "	stp	x9, x30, [sp]\n"
 "	str	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
@@ -104,6 +108,7 @@ asm (
 "	ldp	x30, x9, [sp]\n"
 "	ldr	x0, [sp, #16]\n"
 "	add	sp, sp, #32\n"
+	TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
 "	ret	x9\n"
 "	.size		my_tramp, .-my_tramp\n"
 "	.popsection\n"
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.h b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..726f67048ff5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.h
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef _SAMPLES_FTRACE_DIRECT_H
+#define _SAMPLES_FTRACE_DIRECT_H
+
+#include <linux/stringify.h>
+
+/*
+ * A direct-call trampoline is entered with no lock, refcount or RCU marker
+ * held; only Tasks RCU keeps it (and, for a module, its text) alive while a
+ * task is inside it or preempted in something it called.  On architectures
+ * that select HAVE_RCU_TRAMPOLINE_READERS, Tasks RCU only waits for such a
+ * task while it is a Tasks Trace RCU reader, so the trampoline must enter one
+ * before calling out and leave it afterwards, exactly like the ftrace and BPF
+ * trampolines do.  See register_ftrace_direct().  The instructions before the
+ * lock and after the unlock are covered by ftrace_direct_mark_module().
+ *
+ * These are rcu_read_lock_trace() / rcu_read_unlock_trace() open-coded as
+ * instruction strings for use inside the samples' asm() trampolines, after
+ * the versions in arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S and
+ * arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S.  The scratch registers are caller-saved
+ * and not argument registers, so they are dead on entry to and exit from an
+ * fentry trampoline; the flags are clobbered.
+ *
+ * The generated asm-offsets.h is only pulled in on the architectures that need
+ * it here: it is not generally safe to include from C (e.g. PPC32's TASK_SIZE
+ * and arm64's TRAMP_VALIAS clash with the C definitions).
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRAMPOLINE_READERS) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
+
+#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_NO_MB
+#define TRACE_RCU_MB	"	lock addl $0, -4(%rsp)\n"
+#else
+#define TRACE_RCU_MB
+#endif
+
+#define TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK							\
+	"	movq %gs:current_task(%rip), %r11\n"					\
+	"	movl " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_nesting) "(%r11), %r10d\n"		\
+	"	incl " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_nesting) "(%r11)\n"		\
+	"	testl %r10d, %r10d\n"							\
+	"	jnz 771f\n"								\
+	"	movq rcu_tasks_trace_srcu_struct+" __stringify(SRCU_srcu_ctrp) "(%rip), %r10\n" \
+	"	incq %gs:" __stringify(SRCU_CTR_srcu_locks) "(%r10)\n"			\
+	"	movq %r10, " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_scp) "(%r11)\n"		\
+	TRACE_RCU_MB								\
+	"771:\n"
+
+#define TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK							\
+	"	movq %gs:current_task(%rip), %r11\n"					\
+	"	movl " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_nesting) "(%r11), %r10d\n"		\
+	"	subl $1, %r10d\n"							\
+	"	jnz 772f\n"								\
+	"	movq " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_scp) "(%r11), %r10\n"		\
+	"	movl $0, " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_nesting) "(%r11)\n"		\
+	TRACE_RCU_MB								\
+	"	incq %gs:" __stringify(SRCU_CTR_srcu_unlocks) "(%r10)\n"		\
+	"	jmp 773f\n"								\
+	"772:	movl %r10d, " __stringify(TASK_trc_reader_nesting) "(%r11)\n"	\
+	"773:\n"
+
+#elif defined(CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRAMPOLINE_READERS) && defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
+
+#include <asm/alternative-macros.h>
+#include <asm/cpucaps.h>
+/* arm64's asm-offsets.h redefines TRAMP_VALIAS from <asm/fixmap.h>. */
+#pragma push_macro("TRAMP_VALIAS")
+#undef TRAMP_VALIAS
+#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+#pragma pop_macro("TRAMP_VALIAS")
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_NO_MB
+#define TRACE_RCU_MB	"	dmb	ish\n"
+#else
+#define TRACE_RCU_MB
+#endif
+
+#define TRACE_RCU_SRCU_CTRP	"rcu_tasks_trace_srcu_struct+" __stringify(SRCU_SRCU_CTRP)
+
+/* x14 = this CPU's offset; then atomically increment the long at x14 + \areg */
+#define TRACE_RCU_PERCPU_INC(areg)						\
+	ALTERNATIVE("	mrs	x14, tpidr_el1\n", "	mrs	x14, tpidr_el2\n",		\
+		    ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN)					\
+	"	add	x14, x14, " areg "\n"						\
+	"778:	ldxr	x15, [x14]\n"							\
+	"	add	x15, x15, #1\n"							\
+	"	stxr	w16, x15, [x14]\n"						\
+	"	cbnz	w16, 778b\n"
+
+#define TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK							\
+	"	mrs	x12, sp_el0\n"							\
+	"	ldr	w13, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_NESTING) "]\n"	\
+	"	add	w14, w13, #1\n"							\
+	"	str	w14, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_NESTING) "]\n"	\
+	"	cbnz	w13, 771f\n"							\
+	"	adrp	x13, " TRACE_RCU_SRCU_CTRP "\n"					\
+	"	ldr	x13, [x13, #:lo12:" TRACE_RCU_SRCU_CTRP "]\n"			\
+	"	str	x13, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_SCP) "]\n"		\
+	"	add	x13, x13, #" __stringify(SRCU_CTR_SRCU_LOCKS) "\n"		\
+	TRACE_RCU_PERCPU_INC("x13")						\
+	TRACE_RCU_MB								\
+	"771:\n"
+
+#define TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK							\
+	"	mrs	x12, sp_el0\n"							\
+	"	ldr	w13, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_NESTING) "]\n"	\
+	"	subs	w13, w13, #1\n"							\
+	"	b.ne	772f\n"								\
+	"	ldr	x13, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_SCP) "]\n"		\
+	"	str	wzr, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_NESTING) "]\n"	\
+	TRACE_RCU_MB								\
+	"	add	x13, x13, #" __stringify(SRCU_CTR_SRCU_UNLOCKS) "\n"		\
+	TRACE_RCU_PERCPU_INC("x13")						\
+	"	b	773f\n"								\
+	"772:	str	w13, [x12, #" __stringify(TSK_TRC_READER_NESTING) "]\n"	\
+	"773:\n"
+
+#else
+
+#define TRACE_RCU_READ_LOCK
+#define TRACE_RCU_READ_UNLOCK
+
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _SAMPLES_FTRACE_DIRECT_H */

-- 
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