linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: Introduce ftrace_need_init

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Date:   Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:25:45 +0200
From:   Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: Introduce ftrace_need_init_nop()

Implementing live patching on s390 requires each function's prologue to
contain a very special kind of nop, which gcc and clang don't generate.
However, the current code assumes that if CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT is
defined, then whatever the compiler generates is good enough.

Move the CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT check into the new ftrace_need_init_nop()
macro, that the architectures can override.

An alternative solution is to disable using -mnop-mcount in the
Makefile, however, this makes the build logic (even) more complicated
and forces the arch-specific code to deal with the useless __fentry__
symbol.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/ftrace.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c  |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index a69f363b61bf..f1ea8988a045 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -643,6 +643,22 @@ static inline int ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller(void) { return 0; }
 extern int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
 			   struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr);
 
+/**
+ * ftrace_need_init_nop - return whether nop call sites should be initialized
+ *
+ * Normally the compiler's -mnop-mcount generates suitable nops, so we don't
+ * need to call ftrace_init_nop() if the code is built with that flag.
+ * Architectures where this is not always the case may define their own
+ * condition.
+ *
+ * Return must be:
+ *  0       if ftrace_init_nop() should be called
+ *  Nonzero if ftrace_init_nop() should not be called
+ */
+
+#ifndef ftrace_need_init_nop
+#define ftrace_need_init_nop() (!__is_defined(CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT))
+#endif
 
 /**
  * ftrace_init_nop - initialize a nop call site
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 7b180f61e6d3..7efbc8aaf7f6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -3100,6 +3100,7 @@ ops_references_rec(struct ftrace_ops *ops, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
 
 static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod, struct ftrace_page *new_pgs)
 {
+	bool init_nop = ftrace_need_init_nop();
 	struct ftrace_page *pg;
 	struct dyn_ftrace *p;
 	u64 start, stop;
@@ -3138,8 +3139,7 @@ static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod, struct ftrace_page *new_pgs)
 			 * Do the initial record conversion from mcount jump
 			 * to the NOP instructions.
 			 */
-			if (!__is_defined(CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT) &&
-			    !ftrace_nop_initialize(mod, p))
+			if (init_nop && !ftrace_nop_initialize(mod, p))
 				break;
 
 			update_cnt++;
-- 
2.31.1