Re: [PATCH V4 6/7] riscv: ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support

From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: guoren@kernel.org, anup@brainfault.org,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	heiko@sntech.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org,
	jolsa@redhat.com, bp@suse.de, jpoimboe@kernel.org,
	suagrfillet@gmail.com, andy.chiu@sifive.com,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 6/7] riscv: ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 20:15:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4kLcgp4Oas6P3UG@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mhng-2612202a-d3bf-4b2b-9b8b-df67b38b5315@palmer-ri-x1c9a>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 12:06:39PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:02:56 PST (-0800), Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:32:29PM -0500, guoren@kernel.org wrote:
> > > From: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > This patch adds DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support for RISC-V.
> > > 
> > > select the DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS to provide the
> > > register_ftrace_direct[_multi] interfaces allowing users to register
> > > the customed trampoline (direct_caller) as the mcount for one or
> > > more target functions. And modify_ftrace_direct[_multi] are also
> > > provided for modifying direct_caller.
> > > 
> > > To make the direct_caller and the other ftrace hooks (eg. function/fgraph
> > > tracer, k[ret]probes) co-exist, a temporary register is nominated to
> > > store the address of direct_caller in ftrace_regs_caller. After the
> > > setting of the address direct_caller by direct_ops->func and the
> > > RESTORE_REGS in ftrace_regs_caller, direct_caller will be jumped to
> > > by the `jr` inst.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@gmail.com>
> > > Tested-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/riscv/Kconfig              | 1 +
> > >  arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h | 6 ++++++
> > >  arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S  | 4 ++++
> > >  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > index 1d0e5838b11b..2828537abfcd 100644
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ config ARCH_RV64I
> > >  	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128
> > >  	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
> > >  	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> > > +	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
> > >  	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
> > >  	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> > >  	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
> > 
> > Please sort new entries here in alphabetical order, so move the new
> > entry up by one line :)
> 
> IIRC whomever sorted these entrties orignially posted a script that does
> that.  Maybe that should be integrated into either checkpatch or one of the
> patchwork robots so we don't have to manually remember the alphabet?

If it actually does *sorting* I am not sure it's a suitable inclusion
as-is that'd seem better as a pre-commit hook. But maybe it can be
co-opted somehow. I'll try to dig it up off of lore tomorrow.

Thanks,
Conor.