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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	deller@gmx.de, duwe@suse.de,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, james.morse@arm.com,
	jeyu@kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, jthierry@redhat.com,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, svens@stackframe.org,
	takahiro.akashi@linaro.org, will@kernel.org,
	Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 7/8] arm64: implement ftrace with regs
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 13:51:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104135155.GG45140@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8132dc13-9fbd-24e2-8a5e-28b005043c3e@arm.com>

On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 05:51:46PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> On 10/29/19 10:28 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Due to -fpatchable-function-entry=2, the compiler has placed two NOPs before
> > + * the regular function prologue. For an enabled callsite, ftrace_init_nop() and
> > + * ftrace_make_call() have patched those NOPs to:
> > + *
> > + * 	MOV	X9, LR
> > + * 	BL	<entry>
> > + *
> > + * ... where <entry> is either ftrace_caller or ftrace_regs_caller.
> > + *
> > + * Each instrumented function follows the AAPCS, so here x0-x8 and x19-x30 are
> > + * live, and x9-x18 are safe to clobber.
> > + *
> > + * We save the callsite's context into a pt_regs before invoking and ftrace

> s/invoking and ftrace callbacks/invoking the ftrace callbacks

Whoops, that was meant to be 'any'. I've fixed that up locally.

Thanks,
Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-04 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-29 16:58 [PATCHv2 0/8] arm64: ftrace cleanup + FTRACE_WITH_REGS Mark Rutland
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] ftrace: add ftrace_init_nop() Mark Rutland
2019-10-30 15:00   ` Miroslav Benes
2019-11-02 12:19   ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-11-04 13:11     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-11-05  6:59       ` Amit Kachhap
2019-11-04 13:36     ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-05  6:47       ` Amit Kachhap
2019-11-06 14:15         ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-07  4:40           ` Amit Kachhap
2019-11-04 13:16   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-11-04 13:38     ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-04 13:53       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 2/8] module/ftrace: handle patchable-function-entry Mark Rutland
2019-10-30 15:03   ` Torsten Duwe
2019-10-31  9:02     ` Mark Rutland
2019-10-31 11:42       ` Torsten Duwe
2019-10-31 13:00         ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-04 13:28           ` Steven Rostedt
2019-11-04 14:00             ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-04 13:25   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-11-04 15:51   ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-04 20:58     ` Helge Deller
2019-11-05  8:59   ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 3/8] arm64: module: rework special section handling Mark Rutland
2019-10-30 15:25   ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 4/8] arm64: module/ftrace: intialize PLT at load time Mark Rutland
2019-11-02 12:20   ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-11-04 13:55     ` Mark Rutland
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 5/8] arm64: insn: add encoder for MOV (register) Mark Rutland
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 6/8] arm64: asm-offsets: add S_FP Mark Rutland
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 7/8] arm64: implement ftrace with regs Mark Rutland
2019-11-02 12:21   ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-11-04 13:51     ` Mark Rutland [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CANW9uyug8WKN2fR-FmcW-C_OO_OQ_AvukM+BR7wqiJ9eFQMO9Q@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-15  7:45     ` Torsten Duwe
2019-11-15 13:59     ` Mark Rutland
2019-10-29 16:58 ` [PATCHv2 8/8] arm64: ftrace: minimize ifdeffery Mark Rutland
2019-10-30 17:02 ` [PATCHv2 0/8] arm64: ftrace cleanup + FTRACE_WITH_REGS Torsten Duwe
2019-10-31 17:16 ` Torsten Duwe
2019-11-01  9:08   ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-01 15:39 ` Sven Schnelle
2019-11-01 16:28   ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-02 12:12 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-11-04 12:56   ` Will Deacon
2019-11-04 13:03     ` Amit Kachhap
2019-11-04 14:04       ` Mark Rutland
2019-11-05  7:06         ` Amit Kachhap
2019-11-07 11:31 ` Catalin Marinas

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