Linus pointed out that there were locations that did the hard coded
update of the parent and rip parameters. One of them was the static tracer
which could also use the ftrace_caller_setup to do that work. In fact,
because it did not use it, it is prone to bugs, and since the static
tracer is hardly ever used (who wants function tracing code always being
called?) it doesn't get tested very often. I only run a few "does it still
work" tests on it. But I do not run stress tests on that code. Although,
since it is never turned off, just having it on should be stressful enough.
(especially for the performance folks)
There's no reason that the static tracer can't also use ftrace_caller_setup.
Have it do so.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFwF+qCGSKdGaEgW4p6N65GZ5_XTV=1NbtWDvxnd5yYLiw@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1411262304010.3961@nanos
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
New updates to the ftrace generic code had ftrace_stub not always being
called when ftrace is off. This causes the static tracer to always save
and restore functions. But it also showed that when function tracing is
running, the function graph tracer can not. We should always check to see
if function graph tracing is running even if the function tracer is running
too. The function tracer code is not the only one that uses the hook to
function mcount.
Cc: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS are enabled, it is required that the
ftrace_caller and ftrace_regs_caller trampolines set up frame pointers
otherwise a stack trace from a function call wont print the functions
that called the trampoline. This is due to a check in
__save_stack_address():
#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
if (!reliable)
return;
#endif
The "reliable" variable is only set if the function address is equal to
contents of the address before the address the frame pointer register
points to. If the frame pointer is not set up for the ftrace caller
then this will fail the reliable test. It will miss the function that
called the trampoline. Worse yet, if fentry is used (gcc 4.6 and
beyond), it will also miss the parent, as the fentry is called before
the stack frame is set up. That means the bp frame pointer points
to the stack of just before the parent function was called.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141119034829.355440340@goodmis.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.7+
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current method of handling multiple function callbacks is to register
a list function callback that calls all the other callbacks based on
their hash tables and compare it to the function that the callback was
called on. But this is very inefficient.
For example, if you are tracing all functions in the kernel and then
add a kprobe to a function such that the kprobe uses ftrace, the
mcount trampoline will switch from calling the function trace callback
to calling the list callback that will iterate over all registered
ftrace_ops (in this case, the function tracer and the kprobes callback).
That means for every function being traced it checks the hash of the
ftrace_ops for function tracing and kprobes, even though the kprobes
is only set at a single function. The kprobes ftrace_ops is checked
for every function being traced!
Instead of calling the list function for functions that are only being
traced by a single callback, we can call a dynamically allocated
trampoline that calls the callback directly. The function graph tracer
already uses a direct call trampoline when it is being traced by itself
but it is not dynamically allocated. It's trampoline is static in the
kernel core. The infrastructure that called the function graph trampoline
can also be used to call a dynamically allocated one.
For now, only ftrace_ops that are not dynamically allocated can have
a trampoline. That is, users such as function tracer or stack tracer.
kprobes and perf allocate their ftrace_ops, and until there's a safe
way to free the trampoline, it can not be used. The dynamically allocated
ftrace_ops may, although, use the trampoline if the kernel is not
compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. But that will come later.
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Nothing sets function_trace_stop to disable function tracing anymore.
Remove the check for it in the arch code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53C54D32.6000000@zytor.com
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Function graph tracing is a bit different than the function tracers, as
it is processed after either the ftrace_caller or ftrace_regs_caller
and we only have one place to modify the jump to ftrace_graph_caller,
the jump needs to happen after the restore of registeres.
The function graph tracer is dependent on the function tracer, where
even if the function graph tracing is going on by itself, the save and
restore of registers is still done for function tracing regardless of
if function tracing is happening, before it calls the function graph
code.
If there's no function tracing happening, it is possible to just call
the function graph tracer directly, and avoid the wasted effort to save
and restore regs for function tracing.
This requires adding new flags to the dyn_ftrace records:
FTRACE_FL_TRAMP
FTRACE_FL_TRAMP_EN
The first is set if the count for the record is one, and the ftrace_ops
associated to that record has its own trampoline. That way the mcount code
can call that trampoline directly.
In the future, trampolines can be added to arbitrary ftrace_ops, where you
can have two or more ftrace_ops registered to ftrace (like kprobes and perf)
and if they are not tracing the same functions, then instead of doing a
loop to check all registered ftrace_ops against their hashes, just call the
ftrace_ops trampoline directly, which would call the registered ftrace_ops
function directly.
Without this patch perf showed:
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_caller
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] arch_local_irq_save
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] preempt_trace
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] prepare_ftrace_return
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __this_cpu_preempt_check
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_graph_caller
See that the ftrace_caller took up more time than the ftrace_graph_caller
did.
With this patch:
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] call_filter_check_discard
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_graph_caller
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock
The ftrace_caller is no where to be found and ftrace_graph_caller still
takes up the same percentage.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the mcount code gets more complex, it really does not belong
in the entry.S file. By moving it into its own file "mcount.S"
keeps things a bit cleaner.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140508152152.2130e8cf@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
