Impact: fix dynamic ftrace with large modules in PPC64
The math to calculate the offset into the TOC that is taken from reading
the trampoline is incorrect. The bottom half of the offset is a signed
extended short. The current code was using an OR to create the offset
when it should have been using an addition.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: clean up
Paul Mackerras pointed out that the code to determine if the branch
can reach the destination is incorrect. Michael Ellerman suggested
to pull out the code from create_branch and use that.
Simply using create_branch is probably the best.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to PowerPC code modification
After modifying code it is essential to flush the icache. This patch
adds the missing flush.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up and robustness addition
This patch addresses the comments made by Paul Mackerras.
It removes the type casting between unsigned int and unsigned char
pointers, and replaces them with a use of all unsigned int.
Verification that the jump is indeed made to a trampoline has also
been added.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add ability to trace modules on 32 bit PowerPC
This patch performs the necessary trampoline calls to handle
modules with dynamic ftrace on 32 bit PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: Allow 64 bit PowerPC to trace modules with dynamic ftrace
This adds code to handle the PPC64 module trampolines, and allows for
PPC64 to use dynamic ftrace.
Thanks to Paul Mackerras for these updates:
- fix the mod and rec->arch.mod NULL checks.
- fix to is_bl_op compare.
Thanks to Milton Miller for:
- finding the nasty race with using two nops, and recommending
instead that I use a branch 8 forward.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: use cleaner probe_kernel API over assembly
Using probe_kernel_read/write interface is a much cleaner approach
than the current assembly version.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: update to PowerPC ftrace arch API
This patch converts PowerPC to use the new dynamic ftrace arch API.
Thanks to Paul Mackennas for pointing out the mistakes of my original
test_24bit_addr function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
The entire file of ftrace.c in the arch code needs to be marked
as notrace. It is much cleaner to do this from the Makefile with
CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o.
[ powerpc already had this in its Makefile. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch cleans up the ftrace code in PowerPC based on the comments from
Michael Ellerman.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: proski@gnu.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds full support for ftrace for PowerPC (both 64 and 32 bit).
This includes dynamic tracing and function filtering.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The fault label to jump to on fault of updating the code was misplaced
preventing the fault from being recorded.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function
pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the
dynamic ftrace routines.
On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function.
When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub
is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records
the instruction pointers of the locations that call it.
Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all
the locations to nops.
When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now
be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call
to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched
when the function that should be called is updated.
All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any
type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code
on the fly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the memory management of the ftrace
records out of the arch code and into the generic code
making the arch code simpler.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch patches the call to mcount with nops instead
of a jmp over the mcount call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds a feature to dynamically replace the ftrace code
with the jmps to allow a kernel with ftrace configured to run
as fast as it can without it configured.
The way this works, is on bootup (if ftrace is enabled), a ftrace
function is registered to record the instruction pointer of all
places that call the function.
Later, if there's still any code to patch, a kthread is awoken
(rate limited to at most once a second) that performs a stop_machine,
and replaces all the code that was called with a jmp over the call
to ftrace. It only replaces what was found the previous time. Typically
the system reaches equilibrium quickly after bootup and there's no code
patching needed at all.
e.g.
call ftrace /* 5 bytes */
is replaced with
jmp 3f /* jmp is 2 bytes and we jump 3 forward */
3:
When we want to enable ftrace for function tracing, the IP recording
is removed, and stop_machine is called again to replace all the locations
of that were recorded back to the call of ftrace. When it is disabled,
we replace the code back to the jmp.
Allocation is done by the kthread. If the ftrace recording function is
called, and we don't have any record slots available, then we simply
skip that call. Once a second a new page (if needed) is allocated for
recording new ftrace function calls. A large batch is allocated at
boot up to get most of the calls there.
Because we do this via stop_machine, we don't have to worry about another
CPU executing a ftrace call as we modify it. But we do need to worry
about NMI's so all functions that might be called via nmi must be
annotated with notrace_nmi. When this code is configured in, the NMI code
will not call notrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Steven Rostedt