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12-Jul-2014 |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
ftrace/x86: Have function graph tracer use its own trampoline
The function graph trampoline is called from the function trampoline
and both do a save and restore of registers. The save of registers
done by the function trampoline when only the function graph tracer
is running is a waste of CPU cycles.
As the function graph tracer trampoline in x86 is dependent from
the function trampoline, we can call it directly when a function
is only being traced by the function graph trampoline.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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12-Feb-2013 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
tracing/syscalls: Allow archs to ignore tracing compat syscalls
The tracing of ia32 compat system calls has been a bit of a pain as they
use different system call numbers than the 64bit equivalents.
I wrote a simple 'lls' program that lists files. I compiled it as a i686
ELF binary and ran it under a x86_64 box. This is the result:
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on ; ./lls ; echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on
grep lls /debug/tracing/trace
[.. skipping calls before TS_COMPAT is set ...]
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409188: sys_recvfrom(fd: 0, ubuf: 4d560fc4, size: 0, flags: 8048034, addr: 8, addr_len: f7700420)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409190: sys_recvfrom -> 0x8a77000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409211: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 1000, value: 3, size: 22)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409215: sys_lgetxattr -> 0xf76ff000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409223: sys_dup2(oldfd: 4d55ae9b, newfd: 4)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409228: sys_dup2 -> 0xfffffffffffffffe
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409236: sys_newfstat(fd: 4d55b085, statbuf: 80000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409242: sys_newfstat -> 0x3
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409243: sys_removexattr(pathname: 3, name: ffcd0060)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409244: sys_removexattr -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409245: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 19614, value: 1, size: 2)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409248: sys_lgetxattr -> 0xf76e5000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409248: sys_newlstat(filename: 3, statbuf: 19614)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409249: sys_newlstat -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409262: sys_newfstat(fd: f76fb588, statbuf: 80000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409279: sys_newfstat -> 0x3
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409279: sys_close(fd: 3)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421550: sys_close -> 0x200
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421558: sys_removexattr(pathname: 3, name: ffcd00d0)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421560: sys_removexattr -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421569: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d564000, name: 1b1abc, value: 5, size: 802)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421574: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d564000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421575: sys_capget(header: 4d70f000, dataptr: 1000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421580: sys_capget -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421580: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d710000, name: 3000, value: 3, size: 812)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421589: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d710000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426130: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d713000, name: 2abc, value: 3, size: 32)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426141: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d713000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426145: sys_newlstat(filename: 3, statbuf: f76ff3f0)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426146: sys_newlstat -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.431748: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 1000, value: 3, size: 22)
Obviously I'm not calling newfstat with a fd of 4d55b085. The calls are
obviously incorrect, and confusing.
Other efforts have been made to fix this:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/26/367
But the real solution is to rewrite the syscall internals and come up
with a fixed solution. One that doesn't require all the kluge that the
current solution has.
Thus for now, instead of outputting incorrect data, simply ignore them.
With this patch the changes now have:
#> grep lls /debug/tracing/trace
#>
Compat system calls simply are not traced. If users need compat
syscalls, then they should just use the raw syscall tracepoints.
For an architecture to make their compat syscalls ignored, it must
define ARCH_TRACE_IGNORE_COMPAT_SYSCALLS (done in asm/ftrace.h) and also
define an arch_trace_is_compat_syscall() function that will return true
if the current task should ignore tracing the syscall.
I want to stress that this change does not affect actual syscalls in any
way, shape or form. It is only used within the tracing system and
doesn't interfere with the syscall logic at all. The changes are
consolidated nicely into trace_syscalls.c and asm/ftrace.h.
I had to make one small modification to asm/thread_info.h and that was
to remove the include of asm/ftrace.h. As asm/ftrace.h required the
current_thread_info() it was causing include hell. That include was
added back in 2008 when the function graph tracer was added:
commit caf4b323 "tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing"
It does not need to be included there.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360703939.21867.99.camel@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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28-Sep-2012 |
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> |
ftrace: Move ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS in Kconfig
Move SAVE_REGS support flag into Kconfig and rename
it to CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. This also introduces
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which indicates
the architecture depending part of ftrace has a code
that saves full registers.
On the other hand, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS indicates
the code is enabled.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081516.3560.72534.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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09-Feb-2011 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace/x86: Add support for -mfentry to x86_64
If the kernel is compiled with gcc 4.6.0 which supports -mfentry,
then use that instead of mcount.
With mcount, frame pointers are forced with the -pg option and we
get something like:
<can_vma_merge_before>:
55 push %rbp
48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
53 push %rbx
41 51 push %r9
e8 fe 6a 39 00 callq ffffffff81483d00 <mcount>
31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
48 89 fb mov %rdi,%rbx
48 89 d7 mov %rdx,%rdi
48 33 73 30 xor 0x30(%rbx),%rsi
48 f7 c6 ff ff ff f7 test $0xfffffffff7ffffff,%rsi
With -mfentry, frame pointers are no longer forced and the call looks
like this:
<can_vma_merge_before>:
e8 33 af 37 00 callq ffffffff81461b40 <__fentry__>
53 push %rbx
48 89 fb mov %rdi,%rbx
31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
48 89 d7 mov %rdx,%rdi
41 51 push %r9
48 33 73 30 xor 0x30(%rbx),%rsi
48 f7 c6 ff ff ff f7 test $0xfffffffff7ffffff,%rsi
This adds the ftrace hook at the beginning of the function before a
frame is set up, and allows the function callbacks to be able to access
parameters. As kprobes now can use function tracing (at least on x86)
this speeds up the kprobe hooks that are at the beginning of the
function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120807194100.130477900@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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06-Jun-2012 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace/x86: Add save_regs for i386 function calls
Add saving full regs for function tracing on i386.
The saving of regs was influenced by patches sent out by
Masami Hiramatsu.
Link: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120711195745.379060003@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 08f6fba503111e0336f2b4d6915a4a18f9b60e51 |
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30-Apr-2012 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace/x86: Add separate function to save regs
Add a way to have different functions calling different trampolines.
If a ftrace_ops wants regs saved on the return, then have only the
functions with ops registered to save regs. Functions registered by
other ops would not be affected, unless the functions overlap.
If one ftrace_ops registered functions A, B and C and another ops
registered fucntions to save regs on A, and D, then only functions
A and D would be saving regs. Function B and C would work as normal.
Although A is registered by both ops: normal and saves regs; this is fine
as saving the regs is needed to satisfy one of the ops that calls it
but the regs are ignored by the other ops function.
x86_64 implements the full regs saving, and i386 just passes a NULL
for regs to satisfy the ftrace_ops passing. Where an arch must supply
both regs and ftrace_ops parameters, even if regs is just NULL.
It is OK for an arch to pass NULL regs. All function trace users that
require regs passing must add the flag FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS when
registering the ftrace_ops. If the arch does not support saving regs
then the ftrace_ops will fail to register. The flag
FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS_IF_SUPPORTED may be set that will prevent the
ftrace_ops from failing to register. In this case, the handler may
either check if regs is not NULL or check if ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS.
If the arch supports passing regs it will set this macro and pass regs
for ops that request them. All other archs will just pass NULL.
Link: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120711195745.107705970@goodmis.org
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 28fb5dfa783c25dbeeb25a72663f8066a3a517f5 |
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11-Aug-2011 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace/x86_32: Push ftrace_ops in as 3rd parameter to function tracer
Add support of passing the current ftrace_ops into the 3rd parameter
of the callback to the function tracer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.942411318@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 2f5f6ad9390c1ebbf738d130dbfe80b60eaa167e |
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08-Aug-2011 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callback
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| a192cd0413b71c2a3e4e48dd365af704be72b748 |
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30-May-2012 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace: Synchronize variable setting with breakpoints
When the function tracer starts modifying the code via breakpoints
it sets a variable (modifying_ftrace_code) to inform the breakpoint
handler to call the ftrace int3 code.
But there's no synchronization between setting this code and the
handler, thus it is possible for the handler to be called on another
CPU before it sees the variable. This will cause a kernel crash as
the int3 handler will not know what to do with it.
I originally added smp_mb()'s to force the visibility of the variable
but H. Peter Anvin suggested that I just make it atomic.
[ Added comments as suggested by Peter Zijlstra ]
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 08d636b6d4fb80647fe8869ea1cd97b2c26a4751 |
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16-Aug-2011 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace/x86: Have arch x86_64 use breakpoints instead of stop machine
This method changes x86 to add a breakpoint to the mcount locations
instead of calling stop machine.
Now that iret can be handled by NMIs, we perform the following to
update code:
1) Add a breakpoint to all locations that will be modified
2) Sync all cores
3) Update all locations to be either a nop or call (except breakpoint
op)
4) Sync all cores
5) Remove the breakpoint with the new code.
6) Sync all cores
[
Added updates that Masami suggested:
Use unlikely(modifying_ftrace_code) in int3 trap to keep kprobes efficient.
Don't use NOTIFY_* in ftrace handler in int3 as it is not a notifier.
]
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 414eb44dda6b9893b212b2306ccb423ab01eef8e |
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10-May-2011 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
ftrace/x86: mcount offset calculation
Do the mcount offset adjustment in the recordmcount.pl/recordmcount.[ch]
at compile time and not in ftrace_call_adjust at run time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 521ccb5c4aece609311bfa7157910a8f0c942af5 |
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10-May-2011 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
ftrace/x86: mcount offset calculation
Do the mcount offset adjustment in the recordmcount.pl/recordmcount.[ch]
at compile time and not in ftrace_call_adjust at run time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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| 117226d15850387b55fd01675917ee4fcb9699e8 |
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24-Aug-2009 |
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> |
tracing: Remove FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX definitions
Remove the FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX definitions now that we have converted the
syscall event tracing code to use NR_syscalls.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anwin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <f2240cdc8f0b1ca7617390c8f5ec90ba2bd348cf.1251146513.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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| 9daa77e2e9a6b8b859660d5e24d0f8cd77c2af39 |
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10-Aug-2009 |
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> |
tracing: Update FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX
update FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX to the current number of syscalls
FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX is a temporary solution to get the number of
syscalls supported by the arch until we find a more dynamic way
to get this number.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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| f58ba100678f421bdcb000a3c71793f432dfab93 |
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13-Mar-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/syscalls: support for syscalls tracing on x86
Extend x86 architecture syscall tracing support with syscall
metadata table details.
(The upcoming core syscall tracing modifications rely on this.)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| 712406a6bf59ebf4a00358bb59a4a2a1b2953d90 |
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09-Feb-2009 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
tracing/function-graph-tracer: make arch generic push pop functions
There is nothing really arch specific of the push and pop functions
used by the function graph tracer. This patch moves them to generic
code.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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| d680fe44775ed17a80035462d9898f5e77bfd7dd |
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12-Dec-2008 |
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> |
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
Impact: clean up
Itroduce MCOUNT_SAVE/RESTORE_FRAME which allow us to
save a number of lines on source level.
Also fix a comment in ftrace.h.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| fb52607afcd0629776f1dc9e657647ceae81dd50 |
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25-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer
Impact: cleanup
This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| f201ae2356c74bcae130b2177b3dca903ea98071 |
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23-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely
Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.
So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.
Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork
I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| 31e889098a80ceb3e9e3c555d522b2686a6663c6 |
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15-Nov-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions
Impact: allow archs more flexibility on dynamic ftrace implementations
Dynamic ftrace has largly been developed on x86. Since x86 does not
have the same limitations as other architectures, the ftrace interaction
between the generic code and the architecture specific code was not
flexible enough to handle some of the issues that other architectures
have.
Most notably, module trampolines. Due to the limited branch distance
that archs make in calling kernel core code from modules, the module
load code must create a trampoline to jump to what will make the
larger jump into core kernel code.
The problem arises when this happens to a call to mcount. Ftrace checks
all code before modifying it and makes sure the current code is what
it expects. Right now, there is not enough information to handle modifying
module trampolines.
This patch changes the API between generic dynamic ftrace code and
the arch dependent code. There is now two functions for modifying code:
ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, addr) - convert the code at rec->ip into
a nop, where the original text is calling addr. (mod is the
module struct if called by module init)
ftrace_make_caller(rec, addr) - convert the code rec->ip that should
be a nop into a caller to addr.
The record "rec" now has a new field called "arch" where the architecture
can add any special attributes to each call site record.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| caf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a |
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11-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing
Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.
This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.
The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.
Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.
For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| 7e5e26a3d8ac4bcadb380073dc9604c07a9a6198 |
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31-Oct-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
ftrace: fix hardirq header for non ftrace archs
Impact: build fix for non-ftrace architectures
Not all archs implement ftrace, and therefore do not have an asm/ftrace.h.
This patch corrects the problem.
The ftrace_nmi_enter/exit now must be defined for all archs that implement
dynamic ftrace. Currently, only x86 does.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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31-Oct-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
ftrace: nmi safe code clean ups
Impact: cleanup
This patch cleans up the NMI safe code for dynamic ftrace as suggested
by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Oct-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
ftrace: nmi safe code modification
Impact: fix crashes that can occur in NMI handlers, if their code is modified
Modifying code is something that needs special care. On SMP boxes,
if code that is being modified is also being executed on another CPU,
that CPU will have undefined results.
The dynamic ftrace uses kstop_machine to make the system act like a
uniprocessor system. But this does not address NMIs, that can still
run on other CPUs.
One approach to handle this is to make all code that are used by NMIs
not be traced. But NMIs can call notifiers that spread throughout the
kernel and this will be very hard to maintain, and the chance of missing
a function is very high.
The approach that this patch takes is to have the NMIs modify the code
if the modification is taking place. The way this works is that just
writing to code executing on another CPU is not harmful if what is
written is the same as what exists.
Two buffers are used: an IP buffer and a "code" buffer.
The steps that the patcher takes are:
1) Put in the instruction pointer into the IP buffer
and the new code into the "code" buffer.
2) Set a flag that says we are modifying code
3) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
4) Write the code
5) clear the flag.
6) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
If an NMI is executed, it will also write the pending code.
Multiple writes are OK, because what is being written is the same.
Then the patcher must wait for all running NMIs to finish before
going to the next line that must be patched.
This is basically the RCU approach to code modification.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for suggesting the idea, and to Arjan van de Ven
for his guidence on what is safe and what is not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Oct-2008 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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18-Aug-2008 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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