Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS

From: Florent Revest
Date: Wed Aug 09 2023 - 06:31:21 EST


On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:49 AM Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
<mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Allow fprobe events to be enabled with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.
> With this change, fprobe events mostly use ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs.
> Note that if the arch doesn't enable HAVE_PT_REGS_COMPAT_FTRACE_REGS,
> fprobe events will not be able to use from perf.

nit: "to be used from perf" ?

> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c
> @@ -132,25 +132,30 @@ static int
> process_fetch_insn(struct fetch_insn *code, void *rec, void *dest,
> void *base)
> {
> - struct pt_regs *regs = rec;
> - unsigned long val;
> + struct ftrace_regs *fregs = rec;
> + unsigned long val, *stackp;
> int ret;
>
> retry:
> /* 1st stage: get value from context */
> switch (code->op) {
> case FETCH_OP_STACK:
> - val = regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(regs, code->param);
> + stackp = (unsigned long *)ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(fregs);
> + if (((unsigned long)(stackp + code->param) & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)) ==
> + ((unsigned long)stackp & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)))

Maybe it'd be worth extracting a local
"ftrace_regs_get_kernel_stack_nth_addr" helper function and/or
"ftrace_regs_within_kernel_stack" ?