This series makes atmoic code patching possible in riscv ftrace. A direct benefit of this is that we can get rid of stop_machine() when patching function entries. This also makes it possible to run ftrace with full kernel preemption. Before this series, the kernel initializes patchable function entries to NOP4 + NOP4. To start tracing, it updates entries to AUIPC + JALR while holding other cores in stop_machine. stop_machine() is required because it is impossible to update 2 instructions, and be seen atomically. And preemption must have to be prevented, as kernel preemption allows process to be scheduled out while executing on one of these instruction pairs.
This series addresses the problem by initializing the first NOP4 to AUIPC. So, atmoic patching is possible because the kernel only has to update one instruction. As long as the instruction is naturally aligned, then it is expected to be updated atomically. However, the address range of the ftrace trampoline is limited to +-2K from ftrace_caller after appplying this series. This issue is expected to be solved by Puranjay's CALL_OPS, where it adds 8B naturally align data in front of pacthable functions and can use it to direct execution out to any custom trampolines. The series is composed by three parts. The first part cleans up the existing issues when the kernel is compiled with clang.The second part modifies the ftrace code patching mechanism (2-4) as mentioned above. Then prepare ftrace to be able to run with kernel preemption (5,6) This series is tested after applying the following ftrace/patching in the fixes branch: - commit 57a369b6f2ee ("riscv: patch: Flush the icache right after patching to avoid illegal insns") - commit a2bd3a5b4b63 ("riscv: stacktrace: convert arch_stack_walk() to noinstr") Changes in v2: - Drop patch 1 as it is merged through fixes. - Drop patch 2, which converts kernel_text_address into notrace. As users can prevent tracing it by configuring the tracefs. - Use a more generic way in kconfig to align functions. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240613-dev-andyc-dyn-ftrace-v4-v1-0-1a538e12c...@sifive.com --- Andy Chiu (6): riscv: ftrace: support fastcc in Clang for WITH_ARGS riscv: ftrace: align patchable functions to 4 Byte boundary riscv: ftrace: prepare ftrace for atomic code patching riscv: ftrace: do not use stop_machine to update code riscv: vector: Support calling schedule() for preemptible Vector riscv: ftrace: support PREEMPT arch/riscv/Kconfig | 4 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h | 11 +++ arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 5 ++ arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h | 22 +++++- arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 7 ++ arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++--------------------- arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S | 25 +++++-- 7 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) --- base-commit: a2bd3a5b4b63b95aea7dbf61d9395cd6696a2bc0 change-id: 20240613-dev-andyc-dyn-ftrace-v4-941d4a00ea19 Best regards, -- Andy Chiu <andy.c...@sifive.com>