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From: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:10:10 +0100
To: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Fix DIRECT_CALLS to use SAVE_REGS by default
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 09:13:06AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> 
> The commit 60c8971899f3 ("ftrace: Make DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS
> and !WITH_REGS") changed DIRECT_CALLS to use SAVE_ARGS when there
> are multiple ftrace_ops at the same function, but since the x86 only
> support to jump to direct_call from ftrace_regs_caller, when we set
> the function tracer on the same target function on x86, ftrace-direct
> does not work as below (this actually works on arm64.)
> 
> At first, insmod ftrace-direct.ko to put a direct_call on
> 'wake_up_process()'.
> 
>  # insmod kernel/samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.ko
>  # less trace
> ...
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s1.   564.686958: my_direct_func: waking up rcu_preempt-17
>           <idle>-0       [007] ..s1.   564.687836: my_direct_func: waking up kcompactd0-63
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s1.   564.690926: my_direct_func: waking up rcu_preempt-17
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s1.   564.696872: my_direct_func: waking up rcu_preempt-17
>           <idle>-0       [007] ..s1.   565.191982: my_direct_func: waking up kcompactd0-63
> 
> Setup a function filter to the 'wake_up_process' too, and enable it.
> 
>  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
>  # echo wake_up_process > set_ftrace_filter
>  # echo function > current_tracer
>  # less trace
> ...
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s3.   686.180972: wake_up_process <-call_timer_fn
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s3.   686.186919: wake_up_process <-call_timer_fn
>           <idle>-0       [002] ..s3.   686.264049: wake_up_process <-call_timer_fn
>           <idle>-0       [002] d.h6.   686.515216: wake_up_process <-kick_pool
>           <idle>-0       [002] d.h6.   686.691386: wake_up_process <-kick_pool
> 
> Then, only function tracer is shown on x86.
> But if you enable 'kprobe on ftrace' event (which uses SAVE_REGS flag)
> on the same function, it is shown again.
> 
>  # echo 'p wake_up_process' >> dynamic_events
>  # echo 1 > events/kprobes/p_wake_up_process_0/enable
>  # echo > trace
>  # less trace
> ...
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s2.  2710.345919: p_wake_up_process_0: (wake_up_process+0x4/0x20)
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s3.  2710.345923: wake_up_process <-call_timer_fn
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s1.  2710.345928: my_direct_func: waking up rcu_preempt-17
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s2.  2710.349931: p_wake_up_process_0: (wake_up_process+0x4/0x20)
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s3.  2710.349934: wake_up_process <-call_timer_fn
>           <idle>-0       [006] ..s1.  2710.349937: my_direct_func: waking up rcu_preempt-17
> 
> To fix this issue, use SAVE_REGS flag for multiple ftrace_ops flag of
> direct_call by default.

nice catch

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

jirka

> 
> Fixes: 60c8971899f3 ("ftrace: Make DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS and !WITH_REGS")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index b01ae7d36021..c060d5b47910 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -5325,7 +5325,17 @@ static LIST_HEAD(ftrace_direct_funcs);
>  
>  static int register_ftrace_function_nolock(struct ftrace_ops *ops);
>  
> +/*
> + * If there are multiple ftrace_ops, use SAVE_REGS by default, so that direct
> + * call will be jumped from ftrace_regs_caller. Only if the architecture does
> + * not support ftrace_regs_caller but direct_call, use SAVE_ARGS so that it
> + * jumps from ftrace_caller for multiple ftrace_ops.
> + */
> +#ifndef HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
>  #define MULTI_FLAGS (FTRACE_OPS_FL_DIRECT | FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_ARGS)
> +#else
> +#define MULTI_FLAGS (FTRACE_OPS_FL_DIRECT | FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS)
> +#endif
>  
>  static int check_direct_multi(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>  {
>