[PATCH v2 3/3] ftrace: Add sample with custom ops

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue Jan 03 2023 - 07:54:53 EST


When reworking core ftrace code or architectural ftrace code, it's often
necessary to test/analyse/benchmark a number of ftrace_ops
configurations. This patch adds a module which can be used to explore
some of those configurations.

I'm using this to benchmark various options for changing the way
trampolines and handling of ftrace_ops work on arm64, and ensuring other
architectures aren't adversely affected.

For example, in a QEMU+KVM VM running on a 2GHz Xeon E5-2660
workstation, loading the module in various configurations produces:

| # insmod ftrace-ops.ko
| ftrace_ops: registering:
| relevant ops: 1
| tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| irrelevant ops: 0
| tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| saving registers: NO
| assist recursion: NO
| assist RCU: NO
| ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 1681558ns (16ns / call)

| # insmod ftrace-ops.ko nr_ops_irrelevant=5
| ftrace_ops: registering:
| relevant ops: 1
| tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| irrelevant ops: 5
| tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| saving registers: NO
| assist recursion: NO
| assist RCU: NO
| ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 1693042ns (16ns / call)

| # insmod ftrace-ops.ko nr_ops_relevant=2
| ftrace_ops: registering:
| relevant ops: 2
| tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| irrelevant ops: 0
| tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| saving registers: NO
| assist recursion: NO
| assist RCU: NO
| ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 11965582ns (119ns / call)

| # insmod ftrace-ops.ko save_regs=true
| ftrace_ops: registering:
| relevant ops: 1
| tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| irrelevant ops: 0
| tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
| tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
| saving registers: YES
| assist recursion: NO
| assist RCU: NO
| ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 4459624ns (44ns / call)

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
samples/Kconfig | 7 +
samples/Makefile | 1 +
samples/ftrace/Makefile | 1 +
samples/ftrace/ftrace-ops.c | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 261 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 samples/ftrace/ftrace-ops.c

diff --git a/samples/Kconfig b/samples/Kconfig
index 0d81c00289ee3..daf14c35f071d 100644
--- a/samples/Kconfig
+++ b/samples/Kconfig
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ config SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI
that hooks to wake_up_process and schedule, and prints
the function addresses.

+config SAMPLE_FTRACE_OPS
+ tristate "Build custom ftrace ops example"
+ depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
+ help
+ This builds an ftrace ops example that hooks two functions and
+ measures the time taken to invoke one function a number of times.
+
config SAMPLE_TRACE_ARRAY
tristate "Build sample module for kernel access to Ftrace instancess"
depends on EVENT_TRACING && m
diff --git a/samples/Makefile b/samples/Makefile
index 9832ef3f8fcba..7cb632ef88eeb 100644
--- a/samples/Makefile
+++ b/samples/Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENTS) += trace_events/
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_PRINTK) += trace_printk/
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT) += ftrace/
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI) += ftrace/
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_OPS) += ftrace/
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_ARRAY) += ftrace/
subdir-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_UHID) += uhid
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON) += v4l/
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/Makefile b/samples/ftrace/Makefile
index faf8cdb79c5f4..589baf2ec4e3d 100644
--- a/samples/ftrace/Makefile
+++ b/samples/ftrace/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT) += ftrace-direct-too.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT) += ftrace-direct-modify.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI) += ftrace-direct-multi.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI) += ftrace-direct-multi-modify.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_OPS) += ftrace-ops.o

CFLAGS_sample-trace-array.o := -I$(src)
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_ARRAY) += sample-trace-array.o
diff --git a/samples/ftrace/ftrace-ops.c b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-ops.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..24deb51c72618
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/ftrace/ftrace-ops.c
@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+#include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include <linux/ktime.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
+
+/*
+ * Arbitrary large value chosen to be sufficiently large to minimize noise but
+ * sufficiently small to complete quickly.
+ */
+unsigned int nr_function_calls = 100000;
+module_param(nr_function_calls, uint, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_function_calls, "How many times to call the relevant tracee");
+
+/*
+ * The number of ops associated with a call site affects whether a tracer can
+ * be called directly or whether it's necessary to go via the list func, which
+ * can be significantly more expensive.
+ */
+unsigned int nr_ops_relevant = 1;
+module_param(nr_ops_relevant, uint, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_ops_relevant, "How many ftrace_ops to associate with the relevant tracee");
+
+/*
+ * On architectures where all call sites share the same trampoline, having
+ * tracers enabled for distinct functions can force the use of the list func
+ * and incur overhead for all call sites.
+ */
+unsigned int nr_ops_irrelevant = 0;
+module_param(nr_ops_irrelevant, uint, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_ops_irrelevant, "How many ftrace_ops to associate with the irrelevant tracee");
+
+/*
+ * On architectures with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS, saving the full pt_regs can
+ * be more expensive than only saving the minimal necessary regs.
+ */
+bool save_regs = false;
+module_param(save_regs, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(save_regs, "Register ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS (save all registers in the trampoline)");
+
+bool assist_recursion = false;
+module_param(assist_recursion, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(assist_reursion, "Register ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION");
+
+bool assist_rcu = false;
+module_param(assist_rcu, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(assist_reursion, "Register ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU");
+
+/*
+ * By default, a trivial tracer is used which immediately returns to mimimize
+ * overhead. Sometimes a consistency check using a more expensive tracer is
+ * desireable.
+ */
+bool check_count = false;
+module_param(check_count, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(check_count, "Check that tracers are called the expected number of times\n");
+
+/*
+ * Usually it's not interesting to leave the ops registered after the test
+ * runs, but sometimes it can be useful to leave them registered so that they
+ * can be inspected through the tracefs 'enabled_functions' file.
+ */
+bool persist = false;
+module_param(persist, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(persist, "Successfully load module and leave ftrace ops registered after test completes\n");
+
+/*
+ * Marked as noinline to ensure that an out-of-line traceable copy is
+ * generated by the compiler.
+ *
+ * The barrier() ensures the compiler won't elide calls by determining there
+ * are no side-effects.
+ */
+static noinline void tracee_relevant(void)
+{
+ barrier();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Marked as noinline to ensure that an out-of-line traceable copy is
+ * generated by the compiler.
+ *
+ * The barrier() ensures the compiler won't elide calls by determining there
+ * are no side-effects.
+ */
+static noinline void tracee_irrelevant(void)
+{
+ barrier();
+}
+
+struct sample_ops {
+ struct ftrace_ops ops;
+ unsigned int count;
+};
+
+static void ops_func_nop(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
+ struct ftrace_ops *op,
+ struct ftrace_regs *fregs)
+{
+ /* do nothing */
+}
+
+static void ops_func_count(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
+ struct ftrace_ops *op,
+ struct ftrace_regs *fregs)
+{
+ struct sample_ops *self;
+
+ self = container_of(op, struct sample_ops, ops);
+ self->count++;
+}
+
+struct sample_ops *ops_relevant;
+struct sample_ops *ops_irrelevant;
+
+static struct sample_ops *ops_alloc_init(void *tracee, ftrace_func_t func,
+ unsigned long flags, int nr)
+{
+ struct sample_ops *ops;
+
+ ops = kcalloc(nr, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ops))
+ return NULL;
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+ ops[i].ops.func = func;
+ ops[i].ops.flags = flags;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(ftrace_set_filter_ip(&ops[i].ops, (unsigned long)tracee, 0, 0));
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(register_ftrace_function(&ops[i].ops));
+ }
+
+ return ops;
+}
+
+static void ops_destroy(struct sample_ops *ops, int nr)
+{
+ if (!ops)
+ return;
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(unregister_ftrace_function(&ops[i].ops));
+ ftrace_free_filter(&ops[i].ops);
+ }
+
+ kfree(ops);
+}
+
+static void ops_check(struct sample_ops *ops, int nr,
+ unsigned int expected_count)
+{
+ if (!ops || !check_count)
+ return;
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+ if (ops->count == expected_count)
+ continue;
+ pr_warn("Counter called %u times (expected %u)\n",
+ ops->count, expected_count);
+ }
+}
+
+ftrace_func_t tracer_relevant = ops_func_nop;
+ftrace_func_t tracer_irrelevant = ops_func_nop;
+
+static int __init ftrace_ops_sample_init(void)
+{
+ unsigned long flags = 0;
+ ktime_t start, end;
+ u64 period;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS) && save_regs) {
+ pr_info("this kernel does not support saving registers\n");
+ save_regs = false;
+ } else if (save_regs) {
+ flags |= FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS;
+ }
+
+ if (assist_recursion)
+ flags |= FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION;
+
+ if (assist_rcu)
+ flags |= FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU;
+
+ if (check_count) {
+ tracer_relevant = ops_func_count;
+ tracer_irrelevant = ops_func_count;
+ }
+
+ pr_info("registering:\n"
+ " relevant ops: %u\n"
+ " tracee: %ps\n"
+ " tracer: %ps\n"
+ " irrelevant ops: %u\n"
+ " tracee: %ps\n"
+ " tracer: %ps\n"
+ " saving registers: %s\n"
+ " assist recursion: %s\n"
+ " assist RCU: %s\n",
+ nr_ops_relevant, tracee_relevant, tracer_relevant,
+ nr_ops_irrelevant, tracee_irrelevant, tracer_irrelevant,
+ save_regs ? "YES" : "NO",
+ assist_recursion ? "YES" : "NO",
+ assist_rcu ? "YES" : "NO");
+
+ ops_relevant = ops_alloc_init(tracee_relevant, tracer_relevant,
+ flags, nr_ops_relevant);
+ ops_irrelevant = ops_alloc_init(tracee_irrelevant, tracer_irrelevant,
+ flags, nr_ops_irrelevant);
+
+ start = ktime_get();
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nr_function_calls; i++)
+ tracee_relevant();
+ end = ktime_get();
+
+ ops_check(ops_relevant, nr_ops_relevant, nr_function_calls);
+ ops_check(ops_irrelevant, nr_ops_irrelevant, 0);
+
+ period = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(end, start));
+
+ pr_info("Attempted %u calls to %ps in %lluns (%lluns / call)\n",
+ nr_function_calls, tracee_relevant,
+ period, period / nr_function_calls);
+
+ if (persist)
+ return 0;
+
+ ops_destroy(ops_relevant, nr_ops_relevant);
+ ops_destroy(ops_irrelevant, nr_ops_irrelevant);
+
+ /*
+ * The benchmark completed sucessfully, but there's no reason to keep
+ * the module around. Return an error do the user doesn't have to
+ * manually unload the module.
+ */
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+module_init(ftrace_ops_sample_init);
+
+static void __exit ftrace_ops_sample_exit(void)
+{
+ ops_destroy(ops_relevant, nr_ops_relevant);
+ ops_destroy(ops_irrelevant, nr_ops_irrelevant);
+}
+module_exit(ftrace_ops_sample_exit);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Mark Rutland");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Example of using custom ftrace_ops");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--
2.30.2