Re: [PATCH V4 6/7] riscv: ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 15:03:09 EST


On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:32:29PM -0500, guoren@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch adds DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support for RISC-V.
>
> select the DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS to provide the
> register_ftrace_direct[_multi] interfaces allowing users 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 modifying direct_caller.
>
> To make the direct_caller and the other ftrace hooks (eg. function/fgraph
> tracer, k[ret]probes) co-exist, a temporary register is 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h | 6 ++++++
> arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S | 4 ++++
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index 1d0e5838b11b..2828537abfcd 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ config ARCH_RV64I
> select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128
> select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
> select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> + select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
> select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION

Please sort new entries here in alphabetical order, so move the new
entry up by one line :)

Thanks,
Conor.