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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00</published>
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Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
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<pre>
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T15:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-03T01:32:33+00:00</published>
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If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-25T19:39:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-25T19:39:01+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "ACPI:

   - Improve error reporting when failing to manage SDEI on AGDI device
     removal

  Assembly routines:

   - Improve register constraints so that the compiler can make use of
     the zero register instead of moving an immediate #0 into a GPR

   - Allow the compiler to allocate the registers used for CAS
     instructions

  CPU features and system registers:

   - Cleanups to the way in which CPU features are identified from the
     ID register fields

   - Extend system register definition generation to handle Enum types
     when defining shared register fields

   - Generate definitions for new _EL2 registers and add new fields for
     ID_AA64PFR1_EL1

   - Allow SVE to be disabled separately from SME on the kernel
     command-line

  Tracing:

   - Support for "direct calls" in ftrace, which enables BPF tracing for
     arm64

  Kdump:

   - Don't bother unmapping the crashkernel from the linear mapping,
     which then allows us to use huge (block) mappings and reduce TLB
     pressure when a crashkernel is loaded.

  Memory management:

   - Try again to remove data cache invalidation from the coherent DMA
     allocation path

   - Simplify the fixmap code by mapping at page granularity

   - Allow the kfence pool to be allocated early, preventing the rest of
     the linear mapping from being forced to page granularity

  Perf and PMU:

   - Move CPU PMU code out to drivers/perf/ where it can be reused by
     the 32-bit ARM architecture when running on ARMv8 CPUs

   - Fix race between CPU PMU probing and pKVM host de-privilege

   - Add support for Apple M2 CPU PMU

   - Adjust the generic PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS event
     dynamically, depending on what the CPU actually supports

   - Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers

  Stack tracing:

   - Use the XPACLRI instruction to strip PAC from pointers, rather than
     rolling our own function in C

   - Remove redundant PAC removal for toolchains that handle this in
     their builtins

   - Make backtracing more resilient in the face of instrumentation

  Miscellaneous:

   - Fix single-step with KGDB

   - Remove harmless warning when 'nokaslr' is passed on the kernel
     command-line

   - Minor fixes and cleanups across the board"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
  KVM: arm64: Ensure CPU PMU probes before pKVM host de-privilege
  arm64: kexec: include reboot.h
  arm64: delete dead code in this_cpu_set_vectors()
  arm64/cpufeature: Use helper macro to specify ID register for capabilites
  drivers/perf: hisi: add NULL check for name
  drivers/perf: hisi: Remove redundant initialized of pmu-&gt;name
  arm64/cpufeature: Consistently use symbolic constants for min_field_value
  arm64/cpufeature: Pull out helper for CPUID register definitions
  arm64/sysreg: Convert HFGITR_EL2 to automatic generation
  ACPI: AGDI: Improve error reporting for problems during .remove()
  arm64: kernel: Fix kernel warning when nokaslr is passed to commandline
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix port detection for CMN-700
  arm64: kgdb: Set PSTATE.SS to 1 to re-enable single-step
  arm64: move PAC masks to &lt;asm/pointer_auth.h&gt;
  arm64: use XPACLRI to strip PAC
  arm64: avoid redundant PAC stripping in __builtin_return_address()
  arm64/sme: Fix some comments of ARM SME
  arm64/signal: Alloc tpidr2 sigframe after checking system_supports_tpidr2()
  arm64/signal: Use system_supports_tpidr2() to check TPIDR2
  arm64/idreg: Don't disable SME when disabling SVE
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "ACPI:

   - Improve error reporting when failing to manage SDEI on AGDI device
     removal

  Assembly routines:

   - Improve register constraints so that the compiler can make use of
     the zero register instead of moving an immediate #0 into a GPR

   - Allow the compiler to allocate the registers used for CAS
     instructions

  CPU features and system registers:

   - Cleanups to the way in which CPU features are identified from the
     ID register fields

   - Extend system register definition generation to handle Enum types
     when defining shared register fields

   - Generate definitions for new _EL2 registers and add new fields for
     ID_AA64PFR1_EL1

   - Allow SVE to be disabled separately from SME on the kernel
     command-line

  Tracing:

   - Support for "direct calls" in ftrace, which enables BPF tracing for
     arm64

  Kdump:

   - Don't bother unmapping the crashkernel from the linear mapping,
     which then allows us to use huge (block) mappings and reduce TLB
     pressure when a crashkernel is loaded.

  Memory management:

   - Try again to remove data cache invalidation from the coherent DMA
     allocation path

   - Simplify the fixmap code by mapping at page granularity

   - Allow the kfence pool to be allocated early, preventing the rest of
     the linear mapping from being forced to page granularity

  Perf and PMU:

   - Move CPU PMU code out to drivers/perf/ where it can be reused by
     the 32-bit ARM architecture when running on ARMv8 CPUs

   - Fix race between CPU PMU probing and pKVM host de-privilege

   - Add support for Apple M2 CPU PMU

   - Adjust the generic PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS event
     dynamically, depending on what the CPU actually supports

   - Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers

  Stack tracing:

   - Use the XPACLRI instruction to strip PAC from pointers, rather than
     rolling our own function in C

   - Remove redundant PAC removal for toolchains that handle this in
     their builtins

   - Make backtracing more resilient in the face of instrumentation

  Miscellaneous:

   - Fix single-step with KGDB

   - Remove harmless warning when 'nokaslr' is passed on the kernel
     command-line

   - Minor fixes and cleanups across the board"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
  KVM: arm64: Ensure CPU PMU probes before pKVM host de-privilege
  arm64: kexec: include reboot.h
  arm64: delete dead code in this_cpu_set_vectors()
  arm64/cpufeature: Use helper macro to specify ID register for capabilites
  drivers/perf: hisi: add NULL check for name
  drivers/perf: hisi: Remove redundant initialized of pmu-&gt;name
  arm64/cpufeature: Consistently use symbolic constants for min_field_value
  arm64/cpufeature: Pull out helper for CPUID register definitions
  arm64/sysreg: Convert HFGITR_EL2 to automatic generation
  ACPI: AGDI: Improve error reporting for problems during .remove()
  arm64: kernel: Fix kernel warning when nokaslr is passed to commandline
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix port detection for CMN-700
  arm64: kgdb: Set PSTATE.SS to 1 to re-enable single-step
  arm64: move PAC masks to &lt;asm/pointer_auth.h&gt;
  arm64: use XPACLRI to strip PAC
  arm64: avoid redundant PAC stripping in __builtin_return_address()
  arm64/sme: Fix some comments of ARM SME
  arm64/signal: Alloc tpidr2 sigframe after checking system_supports_tpidr2()
  arm64/signal: Use system_supports_tpidr2() to check TPIDR2
  arm64/idreg: Don't disable SME when disabling SVE
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Mark get_lock_parent_ip() __always_inline</title>
<updated>2023-04-03T15:52:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Keeping</name>
<email>john@metanate.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-27T17:36:46+00:00</published>
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If the compiler decides not to inline this function then preemption
tracing will always show an IP inside the preemption disabling path and
never the function actually calling preempt_{enable,disable}.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230327173647.1690849-1-john@metanate.com

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f904f58263e1d ("sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()")
Signed-off-by: John Keeping &lt;john@metanate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If the compiler decides not to inline this function then preemption
tracing will always show an IP inside the preemption disabling path and
never the function actually calling preempt_{enable,disable}.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230327173647.1690849-1-john@metanate.com

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f904f58263e1d ("sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()")
Signed-off-by: John Keeping &lt;john@metanate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Show a list of all functions that have ever been enabled</title>
<updated>2023-03-21T18:00:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-24T14:56:53+00:00</published>
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When debugging a crash that appears to be related to ftrace, but not for
sure, it is useful to know if a function was ever enabled by ftrace or
not. It could be that a BPF program was attached to it, or possibly a live
patch.

We are having crashes in the field where this information is not always
known. But having ftrace set a flag if a function has ever been attached
since boot up helps tremendously in trying to know if a crash had to do
with something using ftrace.

For analyzing crashes, the use of a kdump image can have access to the
flags. When looking at issues where the kernel did not panic, the
touched_functions file can simply be used.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230124095653.6fd1640e@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Li &lt;chriscli@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
When debugging a crash that appears to be related to ftrace, but not for
sure, it is useful to know if a function was ever enabled by ftrace or
not. It could be that a BPF program was attached to it, or possibly a live
patch.

We are having crashes in the field where this information is not always
known. But having ftrace set a flag if a function has ever been attached
since boot up helps tremendously in trying to know if a crash had to do
with something using ftrace.

For analyzing crashes, the use of a kdump image can have access to the
flags. When looking at issues where the kernel did not panic, the
touched_functions file can simply be used.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230124095653.6fd1640e@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Li &lt;chriscli@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: selftest: remove broken trace_direct_tramp</title>
<updated>2023-03-21T17:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-21T14:04:24+00:00</published>
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The ftrace selftest code has a trace_direct_tramp() function which it
uses as a direct call trampoline. This happens to work on x86, since the
direct call's return address is in the usual place, and can be returned
to via a RET, but in general the calling convention for direct calls is
different from regular function calls, and requires a trampoline written
in assembly.

On s390, regular function calls place the return address in %r14, and an
ftrace patch-site in an instrumented function places the trampoline's
return address (which is within the instrumented function) in %r0,
preserving the original %r14 value in-place. As a regular C function
will return to the address in %r14, using a C function as the trampoline
results in the trampoline returning to the caller of the instrumented
function, skipping the body of the instrumented function.

Note that the s390 issue is not detcted by the ftrace selftest code, as
the instrumented function is trivial, and returning back into the caller
happens to be equivalent.

On arm64, regular function calls place the return address in x30, and
an ftrace patch-site in an instrumented function saves this into r9
and places the trampoline's return address (within the instrumented
function) in x30. A regular C function will return to the address in
x30, but will not restore x9 into x30. Consequently, using a C function
as the trampoline results in returning to the trampoline's return
address having corrupted x30, such that when the instrumented function
returns, it will return back into itself.

To avoid future issues in this area, remove the trace_direct_tramp()
function, and require that each architecture with direct calls provides
a stub trampoline, named ftrace_stub_direct_tramp. This can be written
to handle the architecture's trampoline calling convention, and in
future could be used elsewhere (e.g. in the ftrace ops sample, to
measure the overhead of direct calls), so we may as well always build it
in.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-8-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Li Huafei &lt;lihuafei1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xu Kuohai &lt;xukuohai@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ftrace selftest code has a trace_direct_tramp() function which it
uses as a direct call trampoline. This happens to work on x86, since the
direct call's return address is in the usual place, and can be returned
to via a RET, but in general the calling convention for direct calls is
different from regular function calls, and requires a trampoline written
in assembly.

On s390, regular function calls place the return address in %r14, and an
ftrace patch-site in an instrumented function places the trampoline's
return address (which is within the instrumented function) in %r0,
preserving the original %r14 value in-place. As a regular C function
will return to the address in %r14, using a C function as the trampoline
results in the trampoline returning to the caller of the instrumented
function, skipping the body of the instrumented function.

Note that the s390 issue is not detcted by the ftrace selftest code, as
the instrumented function is trivial, and returning back into the caller
happens to be equivalent.

On arm64, regular function calls place the return address in x30, and
an ftrace patch-site in an instrumented function saves this into r9
and places the trampoline's return address (within the instrumented
function) in x30. A regular C function will return to the address in
x30, but will not restore x9 into x30. Consequently, using a C function
as the trampoline results in returning to the trampoline's return
address having corrupted x30, such that when the instrumented function
returns, it will return back into itself.

To avoid future issues in this area, remove the trace_direct_tramp()
function, and require that each architecture with direct calls provides
a stub trampoline, named ftrace_stub_direct_tramp. This can be written
to handle the architecture's trampoline calling convention, and in
future could be used elsewhere (e.g. in the ftrace ops sample, to
measure the overhead of direct calls), so we may as well always build it
in.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-8-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Li Huafei &lt;lihuafei1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xu Kuohai &lt;xukuohai@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Make DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS and !WITH_REGS</title>
<updated>2023-03-21T17:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-21T14:04:23+00:00</published>
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Direct called trampolines can be called in two ways:
- either from the ftrace callsite. In this case, they do not access any
  struct ftrace_regs nor pt_regs
- Or, if a ftrace ops is also attached, from the end of a ftrace
  trampoline. In this case, the call_direct_funcs ops is in charge of
  setting the direct call trampoline's address in a struct ftrace_regs

Since:

commit 9705bc709604 ("ftrace: pass fregs to arch_ftrace_set_direct_caller()")

The later case no longer requires a full pt_regs. It only needs a struct
ftrace_regs so DIRECT_CALLS can work with both WITH_ARGS or WITH_REGS.
With architectures like arm64 already abandoning WITH_REGS in favor of
WITH_ARGS, it's important to have DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS only.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-7-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Direct called trampolines can be called in two ways:
- either from the ftrace callsite. In this case, they do not access any
  struct ftrace_regs nor pt_regs
- Or, if a ftrace ops is also attached, from the end of a ftrace
  trampoline. In this case, the call_direct_funcs ops is in charge of
  setting the direct call trampoline's address in a struct ftrace_regs

Since:

commit 9705bc709604 ("ftrace: pass fregs to arch_ftrace_set_direct_caller()")

The later case no longer requires a full pt_regs. It only needs a struct
ftrace_regs so DIRECT_CALLS can work with both WITH_ARGS or WITH_REGS.
With architectures like arm64 already abandoning WITH_REGS in favor of
WITH_ARGS, it's important to have DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS only.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-7-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Store direct called addresses in their ops</title>
<updated>2023-03-21T17:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-21T14:04:22+00:00</published>
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All direct calls are now registered using the register_ftrace_direct API
so each ops can jump to only one direct-called trampoline.

By storing the direct called trampoline address directly in the ops we
can save one hashmap lookup in the direct call ops and implement arm64
direct calls on top of call ops.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-6-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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All direct calls are now registered using the register_ftrace_direct API
so each ops can jump to only one direct-called trampoline.

By storing the direct called trampoline address directly in the ops we
can save one hashmap lookup in the direct call ops and implement arm64
direct calls on top of call ops.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-6-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Rename _ftrace_direct_multi APIs to _ftrace_direct APIs</title>
<updated>2023-03-21T17:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-21T14:04:21+00:00</published>
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Now that the original _ftrace_direct APIs are gone, the "_multi"
suffixes only add confusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-5-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Now that the original _ftrace_direct APIs are gone, the "_multi"
suffixes only add confusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-5-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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