linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whVLnVHhjU4=sdBSpP9eviqwv00xvtCDamdQkhDRA_EmQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 May 2019 18:06:12 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:10 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> But the CPU that was rewriting instructions does a run_sync() after
> removing the int3:
>
> static void run_sync(void)
> {
>         int enable_irqs;
>
>         /* No need to sync if there's only one CPU */
>         if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
>                 return;
>
>         enable_irqs = irqs_disabled();
>
>         /* We may be called with interrupts disabled (on bootup). */
>         if (enable_irqs)
>                 local_irq_enable();
>         on_each_cpu(do_sync_core, NULL, 1);
>         if (enable_irqs)
>                 local_irq_disable();
> }
>
> Which sends an IPI to all CPUs to make sure they no longer see the int3.

Duh. I have been looking back and forth in that file, and I was mixing
ftrace_modify_code_direct() (which only does a local sync) with
ftrace_modify_code() (which does run_sync()). The dangers of moving
around by searching for function names.

That file is a maze of several functions that are very similarly named
and do slightly different things.

But yes, I was looking at the "direct" sequence.

> I think you are missing the run_sync() which is the heavy hammer to
> make sure all CPUs are in sync. And this is done at each stage:
>
>         add int3
>         run_sync();
>         update call cite outside of int3
>         run_sync()
>         remove int3
>         run_sync()
>
> HPA said that the last run_sync() isn't needed, but I kept it because I
> wanted to make sure. Looks like your analysis shows that it is needed.

Absolutely. I think we could get rid of it, but yes, to then avoid the
race we'd need to be a lot more clever.

Yeah, with the three run_sunc() things, the races I thought it had can't happen.

             Linus