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Message-ID: <4ca03ffb-559b-4db2-9b92-14d73dfab7e2@yadro.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:56:08 +0300
From: Evgenii Shatokhin <e.shatokhin@...ro.com>
To: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>
CC: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>, Ley Foon Tan <leyfoon.tan@...rfivetech.com>,
Deepak Gupta <debug@...osinc.com>, Sia Jee Heng
<jeeheng.sia@...rfivetech.com>, Björn Töpel
<bjorn@...osinc.com>, Song Shuai <suagrfillet@...il.com>,
Clément Léger <cleger@...osinc.com>, Al Viro
<viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>,
<linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux@...ro.com>
Subject: Re: [DMARC Error] Re: [RFC PATCH] riscv: Implement
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
Hi,
On 07.03.2024 03:17, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 9:35 PM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Puranjay,
>>
>> On 06/03/2024 17:59, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
>>> This patch enables support for DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS on RISC-V.
>>> This allows each ftrace callsite to provide an ftrace_ops to the common
>>> ftrace trampoline, allowing each callsite to invoke distinct tracer
>>> functions without the need to fall back to list processing or to
>>> allocate custom trampolines for each callsite. This significantly speeds
>>> up cases where multiple distinct trace functions are used and callsites
>>> are mostly traced by a single tracer.
>>>
>>> The idea and most of the implementation is taken from the ARM64's
>>> implementation of the same feature. The idea is to place a pointer to
>>> the ftrace_ops as a literal at a fixed offset from the function entry
>>> point, which can be recovered by the common ftrace trampoline.
>>>
>>> We use -fpatchable-function-entry to reserve 8 bytes above the function
>>> entry by emitting 2 4 byte or 4 2 byte nops depending on the presence of
>>> CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C. These 8 bytes are patched at runtime with a pointer
>>> to the associated ftrace_ops for that callsite. Functions are aligned to
>>> 8 bytes to make sure that the accesses to this literal are atomic.
>>>
>>> This approach allows for directly invoking ftrace_ops::func even for
>>> ftrace_ops which are dynamically-allocated (or part of a module),
>>> without going via ftrace_ops_list_func.
>>>
>>> I've benchamrked this with the ftrace_ops sample module on Qemu, with
>>> the next version, I will provide benchmarks on real hardware:
>>>
>>> Without this patch:
>>>
>>> +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------------+
>>> | Number of tracers | Total time (ns) | Per-call average time |
>>> |-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------------|
>>> | Relevant | Irrelevant | 100000 calls | Total (ns) | Overhead (ns) |
>>> |----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------|
>>> | 0 | 0 | 15615700 | 156 | - |
>>> | 0 | 1 | 15917600 | 159 | - |
>>> | 0 | 2 | 15668000 | 156 | - |
>>> | 0 | 10 | 14971500 | 149 | - |
>>> | 0 | 100 | 15417600 | 154 | - |
>>> | 0 | 200 | 15387000 | 153 | - |
>>> |----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------|
>>> | 1 | 0 | 119906800 | 1199 | 1043 |
>>> | 1 | 1 | 137428600 | 1374 | 1218 |
>>> | 1 | 2 | 159562400 | 1374 | 1218 |
>>> | 1 | 10 | 302099900 | 3020 | 2864 |
>>> | 1 | 100 | 2008785500 | 20087 | 19931 |
>>> | 1 | 200 | 3965221900 | 39652 | 39496 |
>>> |----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------|
>>> | 1 | 0 | 119166700 | 1191 | 1035 |
>>> | 2 | 0 | 157999900 | 1579 | 1423 |
>>> | 10 | 0 | 425370100 | 4253 | 4097 |
>>> | 100 | 0 | 3595252100 | 35952 | 35796 |
>>> | 200 | 0 | 7023485700 | 70234 | 70078 |
>>> +----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+
>>>
>>> Note: per-call overhead is estimated relative to the baseline case with
>>> 0 relevant tracers and 0 irrelevant tracers.
>>>
>>> With this patch:
>>>
>>> +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------------+
>>> | Number of tracers | Total time (ns) | Per-call average time |
>>> |-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------------|
>>> | Relevant | Irrelevant | 100000 calls | Total (ns) | Overhead (ns) |
>>> |----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------|
>>> | 0 | 0 | 15254600 | 152 | - |
>>> | 0 | 1 | 16136700 | 161 | - |
>>> | 0 | 2 | 15329500 | 153 | - |
>>> | 0 | 10 | 15148800 | 151 | - |
>>> | 0 | 100 | 15746900 | 157 | - |
>>> | 0 | 200 | 15737400 | 157 | - |
>>> |----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------|
>>> | 1 | 0 | 47909000 | 479 | 327 |
>>> | 1 | 1 | 48297400 | 482 | 330 |
>>> | 1 | 2 | 47314100 | 473 | 321 |
>>> | 1 | 10 | 47844900 | 478 | 326 |
>>> | 1 | 100 | 46591900 | 465 | 313 |
>>> | 1 | 200 | 47178900 | 471 | 319 |
>>> |----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------|
>>> | 1 | 0 | 46715800 | 467 | 315 |
>>> | 2 | 0 | 155134500 | 1551 | 1399 |
>>> | 10 | 0 | 442672800 | 4426 | 4274 |
>>> | 100 | 0 | 4092353900 | 40923 | 40771 |
>>> | 200 | 0 | 7135796400 | 71357 | 71205 |
>>> +----------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+
>>>
>>> Note: per-call overhead is estimated relative to the baseline case with
>>> 0 relevant tracers and 0 irrelevant tracers.
>>>
>>> As can be seen from the above:
>>>
>>> a) Whenever there is a single relevant tracer function associated with a
>>> tracee, the overhead of invoking the tracer is constant, and does not
>>> scale with the number of tracers which are *not* associated with that
>>> tracee.
>>>
>>> b) The overhead for a single relevant tracer has dropped to ~1/3 of the
>>> overhead prior to this series (from 1035ns to 315ns). This is largely
>>> due to permitting calls to dynamically-allocated ftrace_ops without
>>> going through ftrace_ops_list_func.
>>>
>>> Why is this patch a RFC patch:
>>> 1. I saw some rcu stalls on Qemu and need to debug them and see if they
>>> were introduced by this patch.
>>
>>
>> FYI, I'm currently working on debugging such issues (and other) with the
>> *current* ftrace implementation, so probably not caused by your
>> patchset. But keep debugging too, maybe this introduces other issues or
>> even better, you'll find the root cause :)
>>
>>
>>> 2. This needs to be tested thoroughly on real hardware.
>>> 3. Seeking reviews to fix any fundamental problems with this patch that I
>>> might have missed due to my lack of RISC-V architecture knowledge.
>>> 4. I would like to benchmark this on real hardware and put the results in
>>> the commit message.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 ++
>>> arch/riscv/Makefile | 8 +++++
>>> arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h | 3 ++
>>> arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 ++
>>> arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>>> 6 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
>>> index 0bfcfec67ed5..e474742e23b2 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
>>> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ config RISCV
>>> select EDAC_SUPPORT
>>> select FRAME_POINTER if PERF_EVENTS || (FUNCTION_TRACER && !DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
>>> select FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY if DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>>> + select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B if DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
>>
>>
>> A recent discussion [1] states that -falign-functions cannot guarantee
>> this alignment for all code and that gcc developers came up with a new
>> option [2]: WDYT? I have added Andy and Evgenii in +cc to help on that.
>
Yes, the recent GCC supports -fmin-function-alignment option which makes
sure all functions are properly aligned.
I used the following patch on top of Andy's patchset [3]:
-----------
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile
index b33b787c8b07..b831ae62672d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
@@ -14,10 +14,15 @@ endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE),y)
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-relax
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DCC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC),y)
+ CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fmin-function-alignment=4
+else
+ CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -falign-functions=4
+endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C),y)
- CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=12 -falign-functions=4
+ CC_FLAGS_FTRACE += -fpatchable-function-entry=12
else
- CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=6 -falign-functions=4
+ CC_FLAGS_FTRACE += -fpatchable-function-entry=6
endif
endif
-----------
We probably need something like this in arch/riscv/Kconfig as well, to
allow dynamic Ftrace only if GCC supports -fmin-function-alignment:
-----------
config GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
def_bool CC_IS_GCC
- depends on $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
+ depends on $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=6)
+ depends on $(cc-option,-fmin-function-alignment=4)
-----------
> I saw arm64 uses the same and assumes this guarantee, maybe it is broken too?
> Will look into the discussion and try to use the other option. I am
> currently using Clang to build the kernel.
I tried dynamic Ftrace with clang too (LLVM 17.0.6 built from the
official RISC-V toolchain). It seems, clang has no problems with
alignment of functions, unlike GCC, and 'falign-functions=4' is enough
to align everything properly.
However, there is a serious issue with clang and dynamic Ftrace: [4].
In short: for static functions with 9 or more arguments, like
__find_rr_leaf
(https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.8-rc4/source/net/ipv6/route.c#L786),
clang may switch to "fastcall" calling convention. This way, the 9th
argument will be passed in the register t2, the 10th - in t3, etc.,
rather than on the stack like RISC-V ABI requires.
This causes kernel craches when trying to enable "function",
"function_graph" and other tracers for such functions. The
implementation of Ftrace assumes that t0 - t3 can be safely clobbered at
the beginning of the function. clang assumes otherwise.
Unless a compiler option or something to disable switching to fastcall
convention is added (there is currently no such option in clang, it
seems), dynamic Ftrace cannot be used safely with clang-built kernels.
>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/4fe4567b-96be-4102-952b-7d39109b2186@yadro.com/
>> [2]
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;h=0f5a9a00e3ab1fe96142f304cfbcf3f63b15f326
>>
>>
>>> select GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY
>>> select GENERIC_ATOMIC64 if !64BIT
>>> select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if SMP
>>> @@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ config RISCV
>>> select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
>>> select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
>>> select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>>> + select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS if (DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS && !CFI_CLANG)
>>> select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
>>> select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
>>> select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile
>>> index 252d63942f34..875ad5dc3d32 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
>>> @@ -14,12 +14,20 @@ endif
>>> ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE),y)
>>> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-relax
>>> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DCC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
>>> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS), y)
>>> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C),y)
>>> + CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=8,4
>>> +else
>>> + CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=4,2
>>> +endif
>>> +else
>>> ifeq ($(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C),y)
>>> CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=4
>>> else
>>> CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=2
>>> endif
>>> endif
>>> +endif
>>>
>>> ifeq ($(CONFIG_CMODEL_MEDLOW),y)
>>> KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -mcmodel=medany
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h
>>> index 329172122952..c9a84222c9ea 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h
>>> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
>>> void MCOUNT_NAME(void);
>>> static inline unsigned long ftrace_call_adjust(unsigned long addr)
>>> {
>>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS))
>>> + return addr + 8;
>>> +
>>> return addr;
>>> }
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
>>> index a03129f40c46..7d7c4b486852 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
>>> @@ -488,4 +488,7 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
>>> DEFINE(STACKFRAME_SIZE_ON_STACK, ALIGN(sizeof(struct stackframe), STACK_ALIGN));
>>> OFFSET(STACKFRAME_FP, stackframe, fp);
>>> OFFSET(STACKFRAME_RA, stackframe, ra);
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
>>> + DEFINE(FTRACE_OPS_FUNC, offsetof(struct ftrace_ops, func));
>>> +#endif
>>> }
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
>>> index f5aa24d9e1c1..e2e75e15d32e 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
>>> @@ -82,9 +82,52 @@ static int __ftrace_modify_call(unsigned long hook_pos, unsigned long target,
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
>>> +static const struct ftrace_ops *riscv64_rec_get_ops(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
>>> +{
>>> + const struct ftrace_ops *ops = NULL;
>>> +
>>> + if (rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_CALL_OPS_EN) {
>>> + ops = ftrace_find_unique_ops(rec);
>>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!ops);
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> + if (!ops)
>>> + ops = &ftrace_list_ops;
>>> +
>>> + return ops;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static int ftrace_rec_set_ops(const struct dyn_ftrace *rec,
>>> + const struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>>> +{
>>> + unsigned long literal = rec->ip - 8;
>>> +
>>> + return patch_text_nosync((void *)literal, &ops, sizeof(ops));
>
> ^^
> I will change this to use a new function that does a 64 bit write and
> doesn't do flush_icache_range() as naturally aligned writes are
> atomic and therefore synchronization is not required here.
>
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static int ftrace_rec_set_nop_ops(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
>>> +{
>>> + return ftrace_rec_set_ops(rec, &ftrace_nop_ops);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static int ftrace_rec_update_ops(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
>>> +{
>>> + return ftrace_rec_set_ops(rec, riscv64_rec_get_ops(rec));
>>> +}
>>> +#else
>>> +static int ftrace_rec_set_nop_ops(struct dyn_ftrace *rec) { return 0; }
>>> +static int ftrace_rec_update_ops(struct dyn_ftrace *rec) { return 0; }
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>> int ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
>>> {
>>> unsigned int call[2];
>>> + int ret;
>>> +
>>> + ret = ftrace_rec_update_ops(rec);
>>> + if (ret)
>>> + return ret;
>>>
>>> make_call_t0(rec->ip, addr, call);
>>>
>>> @@ -98,6 +141,11 @@ int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec,
>>> unsigned long addr)
>>> {
>>> unsigned int nops[2] = {NOP4, NOP4};
>>> + int ret;
>>> +
>>> + ret = ftrace_rec_set_nop_ops(rec);
>>> + if (ret)
>>> + return ret;
>>>
>>> if (patch_text_nosync((void *)rec->ip, nops, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
>>> return -EPERM;
>>> @@ -125,6 +173,13 @@ int ftrace_init_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
>>>
>>> int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func)
>>> {
>>> + /*
>>> + * When using CALL_OPS, the function to call is associated with the
>>> + * call site, and we don't have a global function pointer to update.
>>> + */
>>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS))
>>> + return 0;
>>> +
>>> int ret = __ftrace_modify_call((unsigned long)&ftrace_call,
>>> (unsigned long)func, true, true);
>>> if (!ret) {
>>> @@ -147,6 +202,10 @@ int ftrace_modify_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long old_addr,
>>> make_call_t0(caller, old_addr, call);
>>> ret = ftrace_check_current_call(caller, call);
>>>
>>> + if (ret)
>>> + return ret;
>>> +
>>> + ret = ftrace_rec_update_ops(rec);
>>> if (ret)
>>> return ret;
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S
>>> index b7561288e8da..cb241e36e514 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S
>>> @@ -191,11 +191,35 @@
>>> .endm
>>>
>>> .macro PREPARE_ARGS
>>> - addi a0, t0, -FENTRY_RA_OFFSET
>>> + addi a0, t0, -FENTRY_RA_OFFSET // ip (callsite's auipc insn)
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
>>> + /*
>>> + * When CALL_OPS is enabled (2 or 4) nops [8B] are placed before the
>>> + * function entry, these are later overwritten with the pointer to the
>>> + * associated struct ftrace_ops.
>>> + *
>>> + * -8: &ftrace_ops of the associated tracer function.
>>> + *<ftrace enable>:
>>> + * 0: auipc t0/ra, 0x?
>>> + * 4: jalr t0/ra, ?(t0/ra)
>>> + *
>>> + * -8: &ftrace_nop_ops
>>> + *<ftrace disable>:
>>> + * 0: nop
>>> + * 4: nop
>>> + *
>>> + * t0 is set to ip+8 after the jalr is executed at the callsite,
>>> + * so we find the associated op at t0-16.
>>> + */
>>> + mv a1, ra // parent_ip
>>> + REG_L a2, -16(t0) // op
>>> + REG_L ra, FTRACE_OPS_FUNC(a2) // op->func
>>> +#else
>>> la a1, function_trace_op
>>> - REG_L a2, 0(a1)
>>> - mv a1, ra
>>> - mv a3, sp
>>> + REG_L a2, 0(a1) // op
>>> + mv a1, ra // parent_ip
>>> +#endif
>>> + mv a3, sp // regs
>>> .endm
>>>
>>> #endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS */
>>> @@ -233,8 +257,12 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(ftrace_regs_caller)
>>> SAVE_ABI_REGS 1
>>> PREPARE_ARGS
>>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
>>> + jalr ra
>>> +#else
>>> SYM_INNER_LABEL(ftrace_regs_call, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
>>> call ftrace_stub
>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> RESTORE_ABI_REGS 1
>>> bnez t1, .Ldirect
>>> @@ -247,9 +275,13 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(ftrace_caller)
>>> SAVE_ABI_REGS 0
>>> PREPARE_ARGS
>>>
>>> -SYM_INNER_LABEL(ftrace_call, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
>
> ^^ this hunk is a mistake, I will fix it in the next version.
>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
>>> + jalr ra
>>> +#else
>>> +SYM_INNER_LABEL(ftrace_regs_call, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
>>> call ftrace_stub
>>>
>>> +#endif
>>> RESTORE_ABI_REGS 0
>>> jr t0
>>> SYM_FUNC_END(ftrace_caller)
>>
>>
>> As I'm diving into ftrace right now, I'll give a proper review soon. But
>> as a note, I noticed that the function_graph tracer, when enabled, makes
>> the whole system unresponsive (but still up, just very slow). A fix I
>> sent recently seems to really improve that if you're interested in
>> testing it (I am :)). You can find it here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240229121056.203419-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/
>
> I saw the same issue where function_graph was making the system slow on Qemu.
> What hardware do you use for testing? or are you testing on Qemu as well?
>
> I tested your patch, it speeds up the process of patching the
> instructions so the following
> command completes ~2.5 seconds faster compared to without your patch.
> $ time echo function_graph > current_tracer
>
> But at runtime the system is still slow and laggy with function_graph,
> I guess because my
> Qemu setup is not powerful enough to run function_graph.
>
> Thanks,
> Puranjay
>
[3]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJF2gTRc487qEme5tQw4ich5xuf8_DYhTB8fp=TXav3Gs4KWnQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#mdba180cfd0c9a6df3da49e9c330649ce5151a24a
[4] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/83111 - "RISC-V ABI
break: x7/t2 register is used to pass the 9th argument to a function in
certain cases"
Regards,
Evgenii
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