linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: implement ftrace with regs

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Message-ID: <20181002121817.GB2398@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:18:17 +0200
From:   Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: implement ftrace with regs

Hi Mark,

thank you for your very detailed feedback, I'll incorporate it
all into the next version, besides one issue:

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 12:27:41PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
> Please use the insn framework, as we do to generate all the other
> instruction sequences in ftrace.
> 
> MOV (register) is an alias of ORR (shifted register), i.e.
> 
> 	mov	<xd>, <xm>
> 
> ... is:
> 
> 	orr	<xd>, xzr, <xm>
> 
> ... and we have code to generate ORR, so we can add a trivial wrapper to
> generate MOV.

I had something similar in v2; but it was hardly any better to read or
understand. My main question however is: how do you justify the runtime
overhead of aarch64_insn_gen_logical_shifted_reg for every function that
gets its tracing switched on or off? The result is always the same 4-byte
constant, so why not use a macro and a comment that says what it does?

	Torsten