This is something I wanted to implement a long time ago, but held off until
there was a good reason to do so. Now it appears that having access to the
arguments of the function by default is very useful. As a bonus, because
arguments must be saved regardless before calling a callback, because they
need to be restored before returning back to the start of the traced
function, there's not much work to do to have them always be there for
normal function callbacks.
The basic idea is that if CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is set, then
all callbacks registered to ftrace can use the regs parameter for the stack
and arguments (kernel_stack_pointer(regs), regs_get_kernel_argument(regs, n)),
without the need to set REGS that causes overhead by saving all registers as
REGS simulates a breakpoint.
This could be extended to move the REGS portion to kprobes itself, and
remove the SAVE_REGS flag completely, but for now, kprobes still uses the
full SAVE_REGS support.
The last patch extends the WITH_ARGS to allow default function tracing to
modify the instruction pointer, where livepatching for x86 no longer needs
to save all registers.
The idea of this approach is to give enough information to a callback that
it could retrieve all arguments, which includes the stack pointer and
instruction pointer.
This can also be extended to modify the function graph tracer to use the
function tracer instead of having a separate trampoline.
Changes since v2:
- Change all callback args to use struct ftrace_regs, and if something
requires the full regs, it must use the ftrace_get_regs() helper macro,
which will return NULL if the regs isn't full (FL_SAVE_REGS set).
This addresses a concern by both Peter Zijlsta and Thomas Gleixner that
a partially filled pt_regs may be used inappropriately.
- No test patch in this version.
- Use case using livepatching is added. This passes the test_livepatch.sh
selftest.
Steven Rostedt (VMware) (3):
ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
livepatching: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is
available
----
arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h | 4 +++-
arch/s390/include/asm/livepatch.h | 5 ++++-
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S | 15 +++++++++++++--
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/ftrace.c | 3 ++-
include/linux/ftrace.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/kprobes.h | 2 +-
kernel/livepatch/patch.c | 10 ++++++----
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_functions.c | 9 ++++-----
kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 2 +-
18 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
