Ftrace fixes for 6.13: - Always try to initialize the idle functions when graph tracer starts A bug was found that when a CPU is offline when graph tracing starts and then comes online, that CPU is not traced. The fix to that was to move the initialization of the idle shadow stack over to the hot plug online logic, which also handle onlined CPUs. The issue was that it removed the initialization of the shadow stack when graph tracing starts, but the callbacks to the hot plug logic do nothing if graph tracing isn't currently running. Although that fix fixed the onlining of a CPU during tracing, it broke the CPUs that were already online. - Have microblaze not try to get the "true parent" in function tracing If function tracing and graph tracing are both enabled at the same time the parent of the functions traced by the function tracer may sometimes be the graph tracing trampoline. The graph tracing hijacks the return pointer of the function to trace it, but that can interfere with the function tracing parent output. This was fixed by using the ftrace_graph_ret_addr() function passing in the kernel stack pointer using the ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() function. But Al Viro reported that Microblaze does not implement the kernel_stack_pointer(regs) helper function that ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() uses and fails to compile when function graph tracing is enabled. It was first thought that this was a microblaze issue, but the real cause is that this only works when an architecture implements HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, as a requirement for that config is to have ftrace always pass a valid ftrace_regs to the callbacks. That also means that the architecture supports ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() Microblaze does not set HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS nor does it implement ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() which caused it to fail to build. Only implement the "true parent" logic if an architecture has that config set. Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241214182138.4e7984a2@batman.local.home/ - Removed the hash-ptr fix as Linus was unhappy with the code it was fixing and I have another series to address that. It didn't even belong in this pull request, as this is the ftrace topic and that was a tracing topic. - Properly fix the function_get_true_parent_ip(), which wasn't a microblaze issue at all, but an issue for any architecture that does not support HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:18:40 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Ftrace fixes for 6.13:
>
> - Always try to initialize the idle functions when graph tracer starts
>
> A bug was found that when a CPU is offline when graph tracing starts
> and then comes online, that CPU is not traced. The fix to that was
> to move the initialization of the idle shadow stack over to the
> hot plug online logic, which also handle onlined CPUs. The issue was
> that it removed the initialization of the shadow stack when graph tracing
> starts, but the callbacks to the hot plug logic do nothing if graph
> tracing isn't currently running. Although that fix fixed the onlining
> of a CPU during tracing, it broke the CPUs that were already online.
>
> - Have microblaze not try to get the "true parent" in function tracing
>
> If function tracing and graph tracing are both enabled at the same time
> the parent of the functions traced by the function tracer may sometimes
> be the graph tracing trampoline. The graph tracing hijacks the return
> pointer of the function to trace it, but that can interfere with the
> function tracing parent output. This was fixed by using the
> ftrace_graph_ret_addr() function passing in the kernel stack pointer
> using the ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() function. But Al Viro reported
> that Microblaze does not implement the kernel_stack_pointer(regs)
> helper function that ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() uses and fails
> to compile when function graph tracing is enabled.
>
> It was first thought that this was a microblaze issue, but the real
> cause is that this only works when an architecture implements
> HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, as a requirement for that config
> is to have ftrace always pass a valid ftrace_regs to the callbacks.
> That also means that the architecture supports ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer()
> Microblaze does not set HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS nor does it
> implement ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer() which caused it to fail to
> build. Only implement the "true parent" logic if an architecture has
> that config set.
>
> Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241214182138.4e7984a2@batman.local.home/
>
> - Removed the hash-ptr fix as Linus was unhappy with the code it was
> fixing and I have another series to address that. It didn't even
> belong in this pull request, as this is the ftrace topic and that
> was a tracing topic.
>
> - Properly fix the function_get_true_parent_ip(), which wasn't a
> microblaze issue at all, but an issue for any architecture that
> does not support HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.
I forgot to append the diffstat and branch where this lives:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
ftrace/fixes
Head SHA1: 166438a432d76c68d3f0da60667248f3c2303d6c
Steven Rostedt (2):
fgraph: Still initialize idle shadow stacks when starting
ftrace: Do not find "true_parent" if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is not set
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kernel/trace/fgraph.c | 8 +++++++-
kernel/trace/trace_functions.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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