linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/fgraph.c, branch v5.13-rc3

tracing: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-23T18:08:18+00:00

Fix ~59 single-word typos in the tracing code comments, and fix
the grammar in a handful of places.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322224546.GA1981273@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210323174935.GA4176821@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation

2021-01-29T20:07:32+00:00

On some archs, the idle task can call into cpu_suspend(). The cpu_suspend()
will disable or pause function graph tracing, as there's some paths in
bringing down the CPU that can have issues with its return address being
modified. The task_struct structure has a "tracing_graph_pause" atomic
counter, that when set to something other than zero, the function graph
tracer will not modify the return address.

The problem is that the tracing_graph_pause counter is initialized when the
function graph tracer is enabled. This can corrupt the counter for the idle
task if it is suspended in these architectures.

   CPU 1				CPU 2
   -----				-----
  do_idle()
    cpu_suspend()
      pause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause++ (0 -> 1)

				start_graph_tracing()
				  for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
				    ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(cpu)
				      task-struct->tracing_graph_pause = 0 (1 -> 0)

      unpause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause-- (0 -> -1)

The above should have gone from 1 to zero, and enabled function graph
tracing again. But instead, it is set to -1, which keeps it disabled.

There's no reason that the field tracing_graph_pause on the task_struct can
not be initialized at boot up.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 380c4b1411ccd ("tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211339
Reported-by: pierre.gondois@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Reverse what the RECURSION flag means in the ftrace_ops

2020-11-06T13:42:12+00:00

Now that all callbacks are recursion safe, reverse the meaning of the
RECURSION flag and rename it from RECURSION_SAFE to simply RECURSION.
Now only callbacks that request to have recursion protecting it will
have the added trampoline to do so.

Also remove the outdated comment about "PER_CPU" when determining to
use the ftrace_ops_assist_func.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028115613.742454631@goodmis.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023547.904270143@goodmis.org

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Josh  Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Miroslav Benes 
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

fgraph: Convert ret_stack tasklist scanning to rcu

2020-09-22T01:06:02+00:00

It seems that alloc_retstack_tasklist() can also take a lockless
approach for scanning the tasklist, instead of using the big global
tasklist_lock. For this we also kill another deprecated and rcu-unsafe
tsk->thread_group user replacing it with for_each_process_thread(),
maintaining semantics.

Here tasklist_lock does not protect anything other than the list
against concurrent fork/exit. And considering that the whole thing
is capped by FTRACE_RETSTACK_ALLOC_SIZE (32), it should not be a
problem to have a pontentially stale, yet stable, list. The task cannot
go away either, so we don't risk racing with ftrace_graph_exit_task()
which clears the retstack.

The tsk->ret_stack management is not protected by tasklist_lock, being
serialized with the corresponding publish/subscribe barriers against
concurrent ftrace_push_return_trace(). In addition this plays nicer
with cachelines by avoiding two atomic ops in the uncontended case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907013326.9870-1-dave@stgolabs.net

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Define MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE when not defined without direct calls

2020-01-03T02:56:44+00:00

In order to handle direct calls along side of function graph tracer, a check
is made to see if the address being traced by the function graph tracer is a
direct call or not. To get the address used by direct callers, the return
address is subtracted by MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE.

For some archs with certain configurations, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE is undefined
here. But these should not be using direct calls anyway. Just define
MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE to zero in this case.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202001020219.zvE3vsty%lkp@intel.com

Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Fixes: ff205766dbbee ("ftrace: Fix function_graph tracer interaction with BPF trampoline")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Fix function_graph tracer interaction with BPF trampoline

2019-12-10T18:53:59+00:00

Depending on type of BPF programs served by BPF trampoline it can call original
function. In such case the trampoline will skip one stack frame while
returning. That will confuse function_graph tracer and will cause crashes with
bad RIP. Teach graph tracer to skip functions that have BPF trampoline attached.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Rename ftrace_graph_stub to ftrace_stub_graph

2019-11-18T16:42:16+00:00

The ftrace_graph_stub was created and points to ftrace_stub as a way to
assign the functon graph tracer function pointer to a stub function with a
different prototype than what ftrace_stub has and not trigger the C
verifier. The ftrace_graph_stub was created via the linker script
vmlinux.lds.h. Unfortunately, powerpc already uses the name
ftrace_graph_stub for its internal implementation of the function graph
tracer, and even though powerpc would still build, the change via the linker
script broke function tracer on powerpc from working.

By using the name ftrace_stub_graph, which does not exist anywhere else in
the kernel, this should not be a problem.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1573849732.5937.136.camel@lca.pw

Fixes: b83b43ffc6e4 ("fgraph: Fix function type mismatches of ftrace_graph_return using ftrace_stub")
Reorted-by: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

fgraph: Fix function type mismatches of ftrace_graph_return using ftrace_stub

2019-11-14T18:13:43+00:00

The C compiler is allowing more checks to make sure that function pointers
are assigned to the correct prototype function. Unfortunately, the function
graph tracer uses a special name with its assigned ftrace_graph_return
function pointer that maps to a stub function used by the function tracer
(ftrace_stub). The ftrace_graph_return variable is compared to the
ftrace_stub in some archs to know if the function graph tracer is enabled or
not. This means we can not just simply create a new function stub that
compares it without modifying all the archs.

Instead, have the linker script create a function_graph_stub that maps to
ftrace_stub, and this way we can define the prototype for it to match the
prototype of ftrace_graph_return, and make the compiler checks all happy!

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191015090055.789a0aed@gandalf.local.home

Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc:  Rich Felker 
Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Look up the address of return_to_handler() using helpers

2019-09-18T02:24:47+00:00

This ensures that we use the right address on architectures that use
function descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8f6f14d192a994008ac370ce14036bbe67224c7d.1567707399.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

tracing: Fix ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to use task and not current

2018-12-22T13:21:03+00:00

The function ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() takes a task struct descriptor but
uses current as the task to perform the operations on. In pretty much all
cases the task decriptor is the same as current, so this wasn't an issue.
But there is a case in the ARM architecture that passes in a task that is
not current, and expects a result from that task, and this code breaks it.

Fixes: 51584396cff5 ("arm64: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack")
Reported-by: James Morse 
Tested-by: James Morse 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)