Re: [PATCH -next V6 0/7] riscv: Optimize function trace

From: Song Shuai
Date: Wed Jan 11 2023 - 05:14:06 EST


<guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> 于2023年1月7日周六 13:36写道:
>
> From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The previous ftrace detour implementation fc76b8b8011 ("riscv: Using
> PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY instead of MCOUNT") contain three problems.
>
> - The most horrible bug is preemption panic which found by Andy [1].
> Let's disable preemption for ftrace first, and Andy could continue
> the ftrace preemption work.
> - The "-fpatchable-function-entry= CFLAG" wasted code size
> !RISCV_ISA_C.
> - The ftrace detour implementation wasted code size.
> - When livepatching, the trampoline (ftrace_regs_caller) would not
> return to <func_prolog+12> but would rather jump to the new function.
> So, "REG_L ra, -SZREG(sp)" would not run and the original return
> address would not be restored. The kernel is likely to hang or crash
> as a result. (Found by Evgenii Shatokhin [4])
>
> Patches 1,2,3 fixup above problems.
>
> Patches 4,5,6,7 are the features based on reduced detour code
> patch, we include them in the series for test and maintenance.
>
> You can directly try it with:
> https://github.com/guoren83/linux/tree/ftrace_fixup_v6
>
This link is broken, maybe you forget to push the branch to remote.

And the patch ("riscv : select FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY")
was folded in the PR ( https://github.com/guoren83/linux/pull/1 )
I guess you might omit it. Hope its debut in the next version.

> Make function graph use ftrace directly [2] (patch 4, 5)
> ========================================================
>
> In RISC-V architecture, when we enable the ftrace_graph tracer on some
> functions, the function tracings on other functions will suffer extra
> graph tracing work. In essence, graph_ops isn't limited by its func_hash
> due to the global ftrace_graph_[regs]_call label. That should be
> corrected.
>
> What inspires me is the commit 0c0593b45c9b ("x86/ftrace: Make function
> graph use ftrace directly") that uses graph_ops::func function to
> install return_hooker and makes the function called against its
> func_hash.
>
> This series of patches makes function graph use ftrace directly for
> riscv.
>
> If FTRACE_WITH_REGS isn't defined, ftrace_caller keeps ftrace_graph_call
> so that it can be replaced with the calling of prepare_ftrace_return by
> the enable/disable helper.
>
> As for defining FTRACE_WITH_REGS, ftrace_caller is adjusted to save the
> necessary regs against the pt_regs layout, so it can reasonably call the
> graph_ops::func function - ftrace_graph_func. And
> ftrace_graph_[regs]_call
> and its enable/disable helper aren't needed.
>
> Test log:
>
> The tests generated by CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST have passed in the
> local
> qemu-system-riscv64 virt machine. The following is the log during
> startup.
>
> ```
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer function: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing dynamic ftrace: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing dynamic ftrace ops #1:
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (1 0 1 0 0)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (1 1 2 0 0)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (2 1 3 0 365)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (2 2 4 0 399)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (3 2 4 0 146071)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (3 3 5 0 146105) PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing dynamic ftrace ops #2:
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (1 0 1 589 0)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (1 1 2 635 0)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (2 1 3 1 2)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (2 2 4 125 126)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (3 2 4 146001 146078)
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: (3 3 5 146035 146112) PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing ftrace recursion: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing ftrace recursion safe: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing ftrace regs: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer nop: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer irqsoff: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer wakeup:
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: sched: DL replenish lagged too much
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer wakeup_rt: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer wakeup_dl: PASSED
> Nov 15 03:07:13 stage4 kernel: Testing tracer function_graph: PASSED
> ```
>
> Add WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support [3] (patch 6, 7)
> ==============================================
>
> This series adds DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support for RISC-V.
> SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT and SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI are also included
> here as the samples for testing DIRECT_CALLS related interface.
>
> First, select the DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS to provide
> register_ftrace_direct[_multi] interfaces allowing user to register
> the customed trampoline (direct_caller) as the mcount for one or
> more target functions. And modify_ftrace_direct[_multi] are also
> provided for modify direct_caller.
>
> At the same time, the samples in ./samples/ftrace/ can be built
> as kerenl module for testing these interfaces with SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT
> and SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI selected.
>
> Second, to make the direct_caller and the other ftrace hooks
> (eg. function/fgraph tracer, k[ret]probes) co-exist, a temporary
> register
> are nominated to store the address of direct_caller in
> ftrace_regs_caller.
> After the setting of the address direct_caller by direct_ops->func and
> the RESTORE_REGS in ftrace_regs_caller, direct_caller will be jumped to
> by the `jr` inst.
>
> The following tests have been passed in my local qemu-riscv64 virt
> machine.
>
> 1. tests with CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
> 2. tests of samples/ftrace/ftrace*.ko
> 3. manual tests with any combination of the following hooks
> - function/function_graph tracer
> - ftrace*.ko
> - kprobe/kretprobe
>
> For your reference, here is the log when function tracer, kretprobe and
> ftrace-direct-too.ko co-hooks the handle_mm_fault function.
>
> ```
> [root@stage4 tracing]# echo handle_mm_fault > set_ftrace_filter
> [root@stage4 tracing]# echo 'r:myr handle_mm_fault' > kprobe_events
> [root@stage4 tracing]# echo function > current_tracer
> [root@stage4 tracing]# echo 1 > events/kprobes/myr/enable
> [root@stage4 tracing]# insmod /root/ftrace-direct-too.ko
> [root@stage4 tracing]#
> [root@stage4 tracing]# cat trace | tail
> cat-388 [000] ...1. 583.051438: myr:
> (do_page_fault+0x16c/0x5f2 <- handle_mm_fault)
> cat-388 [000] ...2. 583.057930: handle_mm_fault
> <-do_page_fault
> cat-388 [000] ..... 583.057990: my_direct_func:
> handle mm fault vma=000000002d9fe19c address=ffffffae9b7000 flags=215
> cat-388 [000] ...1. 583.058284: myr:
> (do_page_fault+0x16c/0x5f2 <- handle_mm_fault)
> tail-389 [001] ...2. 583.059062: handle_mm_fault
> <-do_page_fault
> tail-389 [001] ..... 583.059104: my_direct_func:
> handle mm fault vma=0000000017f3c48e address=aaaaaabebf3000 flags=215
> tail-389 [001] ...1. 583.059325: myr:
> (do_page_fault+0x16c/0x5f2 <- handle_mm_fault)
> tail-389 [001] ...2. 583.060371: handle_mm_fault
> <-do_page_fault
> tail-389 [001] ..... 583.060410: my_direct_func:
> handle mm fault vma=0000000017f3c48e address=aaaaaabebf1000 flags=255
> tail-389 [001] ...1. 583.060996: myr:
> (do_page_fault+0x16c/0x5f2 <- handle_mm_fault)
> ```
> Note1:
>
> The checkpatch.pl will output some warnings on this series, like this
>
> ```
> WARNING: Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using 'my_direct_func2',
> this function's name, in a string
> 111: FILE: samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c:48:
> +" call my_direct_func2\n"
> ```
>
> The reason is that checkpatch depends on patch context providing the
> function name. In the above warning, my_direct_func2 has some codeline
> distance with the changed trunk, so its declaration doesn't come into
> the patch, and then the warning jumps out.
>
> You may notice the location of `my_ip` variable changes in the 2nd
> patch. I did that for reducing the warnings to some extent. But killing
> all the warnings will makes the patch less readable, so I stopped here.
>
> [1] https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1171/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221120084230.910152-1-suagrfillet@xxxxxxxxx/
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20221123142025.1504030-1-suagrfillet@xxxxxxxxx/
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/d7d5730b-ebef-68e5-5046-e763e1ee6164@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Changes in v6:
> - Replace 8 with MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE
> - Replace "REG_L a1, PT_RA(sp)" with "mv a1, ra"
> - Add Evgenii Shatokhin comment
>
> Changes in v5:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20221208091244.203407-1-guoren@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Sort Kconfig entries in alphabetical order.
>
> Changes in v4:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20221129033230.255947-1-guoren@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Include [3] for maintenance. [Song Shuai]
>
> Changes in V3:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20221123153950.2911981-1-guoren@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Include [2] for maintenance. [Song Shuai]
>
> Changes in V2:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220921034910.3142465-1-guoren@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Add Signed-off for preemption fixup.
>
> Changes in V1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220916103817.9490-1-guoren@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Andy Chiu (1):
> riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption
>
> Guo Ren (2):
> riscv: ftrace: Remove wasted nops for !RISCV_ISA_C
> riscv: ftrace: Reduce the detour code size to half
>
> Song Shuai (4):
> riscv: ftrace: Add ftrace_graph_func
> riscv: ftrace: Make ftrace_caller call ftrace_graph_func
> riscv: ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support
> samples: ftrace: Add riscv support for SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT[_MULTI]
>
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/Makefile | 6 +-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h | 71 ++++++--
> arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c | 91 ++++------
> arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S | 181 +++++++++++++-------
> samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c | 33 ++++
> samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c | 37 ++++
> samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi.c | 22 +++
> samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c | 26 +++
> samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c | 22 +++
> 10 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.36.1
>


--
Thanks,
Song