Make use of gcc's hotpatch support to generate better code for ftrace
function tracing.
The generated code now contains only a six byte nop in each function
prologue instead of a 24 byte code block which will be runtime patched to
support function tracing.
With the new code generation the runtime overhead for supporting function
tracing is close to zero, while the original code did show a significant
performance impact.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The common code ftrace_return_address(n), which is just a wrapper for
__builtin_return_address(n), will only work for n > 0 if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
is set to 'y'. Otherwise it will return 0.
Since on s390 we will never have that config option set to 'y'
ftrace_return_address() won't work at all for n > 0.
Luckily we always compile the kernel with -mkernel-backchain which
in turn means that __builtin_return_address(n) will always work.
So let ftrace_return_address(n) map to __builtin_return_address(n).
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If the function tracer is enabled, allow to set kprobes on the first
instruction of a function (which is the function trace caller):
If no kprobe is set handling of enabling and disabling function tracing
of a function simply patches the first instruction. Either it is a nop
(right now it's an unconditional branch, which skips the mcount block),
or it's a branch to the ftrace_caller() function.
If a kprobe is being placed on a function tracer calling instruction
we encode if we actually have a nop or branch in the remaining bytes
after the breakpoint instruction (illegal opcode).
This is possible, since the size of the instruction used for the nop
and branch is six bytes, while the size of the breakpoint is only
two bytes.
Therefore the first two bytes contain the illegal opcode and the last
four bytes contain either "0" for nop or "1" for branch. The kprobes
code will then execute/simulate the correct instruction.
Instruction patching for kprobes and function tracer is always done
with stop_machine(). Therefore we don't have any races where an
instruction is patched concurrently on a different cpu.
Besides that also the program check handler which executes the function
trace caller instruction won't be executed concurrently to any
stop_machine() execution.
This allows to keep full fault based kprobes handling which generates
correct pt_regs contents automatically.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
31 bit and 64 bit diverge more and more and it is rather painful
to keep both parts running.
To make things simpler just remove the 31 bit support which nobody
uses anyway.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Reduce the number of executed instructions within the mcount block if
function tracing is enabled. We achieve that by using a non-standard
C function call ABI. Since the called function is also written in
assembler this is not a problem.
This also allows to replace the unconditional store at the beginning
of the mcount block with a larl instruction, which doesn't touch
memory.
In theory we could also patch the first instruction of the mcount block
to enable and disable function tracing. However this would break kprobes.
This could be fixed with implementing the "kprobes_on_ftrace" feature;
however keeping the odd jprobes working seems not to be possible without
a lot of code churn. Therefore keep the code easy and simply accept one
wasted 1-cycle "larl" instruction per function prologue.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This code is based on a patch from Vojtech Pavlik.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-s390&m=140438885114413&w=2
The actual implementation now differs significantly:
Instead of adding a second function "ftrace_regs_caller" which would be nearly
identical to the existing ftrace_caller function, the current ftrace_caller
function is now an alias to ftrace_regs_caller and always passes the needed
pt_regs structure and function_trace_op parameters unconditionally.
Besides that also use asm offsets to correctly allocate and access the new
struct pt_regs on the stack.
While at it we can make use of new instruction to get rid of some indirect
loads if compiled for new machines.
The passed struct pt_regs can be changed by the called function and it's new
contents will replace the current contents.
Note: to change the return address the embedded psw member of the pt_regs
structure must be changed. The psw member is right now incomplete, since
the mask part is missing. For all current use cases this should be sufficent.
Providing and restoring a sane mask would mean we need to add an epsw/lpswe
pair to the mcount code. Only these two instruction would cost us ~120 cycles
which currently seems not necessary.
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
When the function graph tracer is disabled we can skip three additional
instructions. So let's just do this.
So if function tracing is enabled but function graph tracing is
runtime disabled, we get away with a single unconditional branch.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tony Jones reported that the ftrace self tests on s390 do not work:
<6>Testing dynamic ftrace ops #1: (0 0 0 0 0) FAILED!
<6>Testing tracer irqsoff:
<3>failed to start irqsoff tracer
<4>.. no entries found ..FAILED!
<6>Testing tracer wakeup:
<3>failed to start wakeup tracer
<4>.. no entries found ..FAILED!
<6>Testing tracer function_graph:
<4>Failed to init function_graph tracer, init returned -19
<4>FAILED!
This happens because we forgot to adjust the instruction pointer that gets
passed to the ftrace trace function by MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE.
In addition change MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE to the correct value on 31 bit.
It only worked so far because the to be patched instruction was identical.
Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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>
Function graph tracer support for s390.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This implements just the basic function tracer (_mcount) backend for s390.
The dynamic variant will come later.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
