linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] objtool,x86_64: Replace recordmcount with objtool

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Message-ID: <20200626112931.GF4817@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:29:31 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        mhelsley@...are.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] objtool,x86_64: Replace recordmcount with objtool

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 03:40:42PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:

> > Not boot tested, but it generates the required sections and they look
> > more or less as expected, ymmv.

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > index a291823f3f26..189575c12434 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ config X86
> >  	select HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
> >  	select HAVE_FAST_GUP
> >  	select HAVE_FENTRY			if X86_64 || DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> > -	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
> >  	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> >  	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
> >  	select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> 
> This breaks DYNAMIC_FTRACE according to kernel/trace/ftrace.c:
> 
>   #ifndef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
>   # error Dynamic ftrace depends on MCOUNT_RECORD
>   #endif
> 
> And the build errors after that seem to confirm this. It looks like we might
> need another flag to skip recordmcount.

Hurm, Steve, how you want to do that?

> Anyway, since objtool is run before recordmcount, I just left this unchanged
> for testing and ignored the recordmcount warnings about __mcount_loc already
> existing. Something is a bit off still though, I see this at boot:
> 
>   ------------[ ftrace bug ]------------
>   ftrace failed to modify
>   [<ffffffff81000660>] __tracepoint_iter_initcall_level+0x0/0x40
>    actual:   0f:1f:44:00:00
>   Initializing ftrace call sites
>   ftrace record flags: 0
>    (0)
>    expected tramp: ffffffff81056500
>   ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> Otherwise, this looks pretty good.

Ha! it is trying to convert the "CALL __fentry__" into a NOP and not
finding the CALL -- because objtool already made it a NOP...

Weird, I thought recordmcount would also write NOPs, it certainly has
code for that. I suppose we can use CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT to avoid those,
but I'd rather Steve explain this before I wreck things further.