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Message-Id: <1413387978-984-1-git-send-email-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:46:16 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] s390 vs. kprobes on ftrace

Hi all,

we would like to implement an architecture specific variant of "kprobes
on ftrace" without using the current HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE infrastructure
which is currently only used by x86.

The rationale for these two patches is:
- we want to patch the first instruction of the mcount code block to
  reduce the overhead of the function tracer
- we'd like to keep the ftrace_caller function as simple as possible and
  not require it to generate a 100% valid pt_regs structure as required
  by the combination of DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS and HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.
  This allows us to not generate the psw mask field in the pt_regs
  structure on each function tracer enabled function, which otherwise would
  be very expensive. Besides that program check generated pt_regs contents
  are "more" accurate than program generated ones and don't require any
  maintenance.
  And also we can keep the ftrace and kprobes backends quite separated.

In order to make this work a small common code change is necessary which
removes a check if kprobe is being placed on an ftrace location (see
first patch).

If possible, I'd like to have an ACK from at least one of the kprobes
maintainers for the first patch and bring it upstream via the s390 tree.

Thanks,
Heiko

Heiko Carstens (2):
  kprobes: introduce ARCH_HANDLES_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
  s390/ftrace,kprobes: allow to patch first instruction

 arch/Kconfig                    |   8 +++
 arch/s390/Kconfig               |   1 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/ftrace.h  |  52 ++++++++++++++--
 arch/s390/include/asm/kprobes.h |   1 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h |   4 +-
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h |  12 ++++
 arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c  |   1 -
 arch/s390/kernel/early.c        |   4 --
 arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c       | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c      |  87 ++++++++++++++++++--------
 arch/s390/kernel/mcount.S       |   1 +
 arch/s390/kernel/setup.c        |   2 -
 arch/s390/kernel/smp.c          |   1 -
 kernel/kprobes.c                |   3 +-
 scripts/recordmcount.c          |   2 +-
 scripts/recordmcount.pl         |   2 +-
 16 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.5.5

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