[RFC patch 19/21] LTTng Linux Kernel Trace Thread Flag x86

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

Add a thread flag to activate system-wide syscall tracing.

Make x86_64 support TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE async flag set in entry.S

When the flag is inactive upon syscall entry and concurrently activated before
exit, we seem to reach a state where the top of stack is incorrect upon return
to user space.

Fix this by fixing the top of stack and jumping to int_ret_from_sys_call if we
detect that thread flags has been modified.

We make sure that the thread flag read is coherent between our new test and the ALLWORK_MASK test by first saving it in a register used for both comparisons.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h |    9 ++++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S         |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h	2009-01-14 22:10:38.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h	2009-01-14 22:25:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU		6	/* syscall emulation active */
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	7	/* syscall auditing active */
 #define TIF_SECCOMP		8	/* secure computing */
+#define TIF_KERNEL_TRACE	9	/* kernel trace active */
 #define TIF_MCE_NOTIFY		10	/* notify userspace of an MCE */
 #define TIF_NOTSC		16	/* TSC is not accessible in userland */
 #define TIF_IA32		17	/* 32bit process */
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU	(1 << TIF_SYSCALL_EMU)
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	(1 << TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT)
 #define _TIF_SECCOMP		(1 << TIF_SECCOMP)
+#define _TIF_KERNEL_TRACE	(1 << TIF_KERNEL_TRACE)
 #define _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY		(1 << TIF_MCE_NOTIFY)
 #define _TIF_NOTSC		(1 << TIF_NOTSC)
 #define _TIF_IA32		(1 << TIF_IA32)
@@ -117,17 +119,18 @@ struct thread_info {
 
 /* work to do in syscall_trace_enter() */
 #define _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY	\
-	(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | \
+	(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_KERNEL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | \
 	 _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SINGLESTEP)
 
 /* work to do in syscall_trace_leave() */
 #define _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_EXIT	\
-	(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | _TIF_SINGLESTEP)
+	(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_KERNEL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | \
+	 _TIF_SINGLESTEP)
 
 /* work to do on interrupt/exception return */
 #define _TIF_WORK_MASK							\
 	(0x0000FFFF &							\
-	 ~(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE|_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT|			\
+	 ~(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE|_TIF_KERNEL_TRACE|_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT|	\
 	   _TIF_SINGLESTEP|_TIF_SECCOMP|_TIF_SYSCALL_EMU))
 
 /* work to do on any return to user space */
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S	2009-01-14 22:22:40.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S	2009-01-14 22:25:44.000000000 -0500
@@ -571,7 +571,8 @@ END(syscall_trace_entry)
 	# perform syscall exit tracing
 	ALIGN
 syscall_exit_work:
-	testb $_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_EXIT, %cl
+	/* Note, _TIF_KERNEL_TRACE is bit number 9, and so it needs testw and not testb */
+	testw $_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_EXIT, %cx
 	jz work_pending
 	TRACE_IRQS_ON
 	ENABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_ANY)	# could let syscall_trace_leave() call

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
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