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Message-Id: <20240912084926.6d4c5768a538fb5946e31bda@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:49:26 +0900
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>, Steven Rostedt
 <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>,
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 Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Sven
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 Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>,
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 00/20] tracing: fprobe: function_graph:
 Multi-function graph and fprobe on fgraph

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:24:34 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:

> Let me gently ping :)
> 
> Let me check it should be rebased on tracing/for-next again. But basically
> this should be the same...

I found a build error on riscv. Let me fix that.

Thanks,

> 
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:47:53 +0900
> "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here is the 13th version of the series to re-implement the fprobe on
> > function-graph tracer. The previous version is;
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/172000134410.63468.13742222887213469474.stgit@devnote2/
> > 
> > This version is based on v6.11-rc3.
> > In this version, I added a bugfix as [1/20], which should go to urgent
> > branch, and dropped the performance improvement patch which was introduced
> > in v12 because I found that does not work with new kernel.
> > 
> > Overview
> > --------
> > This series rewrites the fprobe on this function-graph.
> > The purposes of this change are;
> > 
> >  1) Remove dependency of the rethook from fprobe so that we can reduce
> >    the return hook code and shadow stack.
> > 
> >  2) Make 'ftrace_regs' the common trace interface for the function
> >    boundary.
> > 
> > 1) Currently we have 2(or 3) different function return hook codes,
> >  the function-graph tracer and rethook (and legacy kretprobe).
> >  But since this  is redundant and needs double maintenance cost,
> >  I would like to unify those. From the user's viewpoint, function-
> >  graph tracer is very useful to grasp the execution path. For this
> >  purpose, it is hard to use the rethook in the function-graph
> >  tracer, but the opposite is possible. (Strictly speaking, kretprobe
> >  can not use it because it requires 'pt_regs' for historical reasons.)
> > 
> > 2) Now the fprobe provides the 'pt_regs' for its handler, but that is
> >  wrong for the function entry and exit. Moreover, depending on the
> >  architecture, there is no way to accurately reproduce 'pt_regs'
> >  outside of interrupt or exception handlers. This means fprobe should
> >  not use 'pt_regs' because it does not use such exceptions.
> >  (Conversely, kprobe should use 'pt_regs' because it is an abstract
> >   interface of the software breakpoint exception.)
> > 
> > This series changes fprobe to use function-graph tracer for tracing
> > function entry and exit, instead of mixture of ftrace and rethook.
> > Unlike the rethook which is a per-task list of system-wide allocated
> > nodes, the function graph's ret_stack is a per-task shadow stack.
> > Thus it does not need to set 'nr_maxactive' (which is the number of
> > pre-allocated nodes).
> > Also the handlers will get the 'ftrace_regs' instead of 'pt_regs'.
> > Since eBPF mulit_kprobe/multi_kretprobe events still use 'pt_regs' as
> > their register interface, this changes it to convert 'ftrace_regs' to
> > 'pt_regs'. Of course this conversion makes an incomplete 'pt_regs',
> > so users must access only registers for function parameters or
> > return value. 
> > 
> > Design
> > ------
> > Instead of using ftrace's function entry hook directly, the new fprobe
> > is built on top of the function-graph's entry and return callbacks
> > with 'ftrace_regs'.
> > 
> > Since the fprobe requires access to 'ftrace_regs', the architecture
> > must support CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS and
> > CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC, which enables to call function-graph
> > entry callback with 'ftrace_regs', and also
> > CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS, which passes the ftrace_regs to
> > return_to_handler.
> > 
> > All fprobes share a single function-graph ops (means shares a common
> > ftrace filter) similar to the kprobe-on-ftrace. This needs another
> > layer to find corresponding fprobe in the common function-graph
> > callbacks, but has much better scalability, since the number of
> > registered function-graph ops is limited.
> > 
> > In the entry callback, the fprobe runs its entry_handler and saves the
> > address of 'fprobe' on the function-graph's shadow stack as data. The
> > return callback decodes the data to get the 'fprobe' address, and runs
> > the exit_handler.
> > 
> > The fprobe introduces two hash-tables, one is for entry callback which
> > searches fprobes related to the given function address passed by entry
> > callback. The other is for a return callback which checks if the given
> > 'fprobe' data structure pointer is still valid. Note that it is
> > possible to unregister fprobe before the return callback runs. Thus
> > the address validation must be done before using it in the return
> > callback.
> > 
> > Download
> > --------
> > This series can be applied against the ftrace/for-next branch in
> > linux-trace tree.
> > 
> > This series can also be found below branch.
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhiramat/linux.git/log/?h=topic/fprobe-on-fgraph
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (20):
> >       tracing: fgraph: Fix to add new fgraph_ops to array after ftrace_startup_subops()
> >       tracing: Add a comment about ftrace_regs definition
> >       tracing: Rename ftrace_regs_return_value to ftrace_regs_get_return_value
> >       function_graph: Pass ftrace_regs to entryfunc
> >       function_graph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with ftrace_regs
> >       function_graph: Pass ftrace_regs to retfunc
> >       fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe entry handler
> >       fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe exit handler
> >       tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs
> >       tracing: Add ftrace_fill_perf_regs() for perf event
> >       tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
> >       bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled
> >       ftrace: Add CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
> >       fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer
> >       tracing: Fix function timing profiler to initialize hashtable
> >       tracing/fprobe: Remove nr_maxactive from fprobe
> >       selftests: ftrace: Remove obsolate maxactive syntax check
> >       selftests/ftrace: Add a test case for repeating register/unregister fprobe
> >       Documentation: probes: Update fprobe on function-graph tracer
> >       fgraph: Skip recording calltime/rettime if it is not nneeded
> > 
> > 
> >  Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst                     |   42 +
> >  arch/arm64/Kconfig                                 |    2 
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h                    |   47 +
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c                    |   12 
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S                   |   32 +
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c                         |   20 +
> >  arch/loongarch/Kconfig                             |    4 
> >  arch/loongarch/include/asm/ftrace.h                |   32 -
> >  arch/loongarch/kernel/asm-offsets.c                |   12 
> >  arch/loongarch/kernel/ftrace_dyn.c                 |   10 
> >  arch/loongarch/kernel/mcount.S                     |   17 -
> >  arch/loongarch/kernel/mcount_dyn.S                 |   14 
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                               |    1 
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h                  |   15 
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c                 |    2 
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_64_pg.c           |   10 
> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig                                 |    3 
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h                    |   26 -
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c                         |   17 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/mcount.S                         |   24 -
> >  arch/s390/Kconfig                                  |    3 
> >  arch/s390/include/asm/ftrace.h                     |   39 +
> >  arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c                     |    6 
> >  arch/s390/kernel/mcount.S                          |    9 
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig                                   |    4 
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h                      |   37 +
> >  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c                           |   50 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S                        |   15 
> >  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S                        |   17 -
> >  include/linux/fprobe.h                             |   57 +-
> >  include/linux/ftrace.h                             |  136 ++++
> >  kernel/trace/Kconfig                               |   23 +
> >  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c                           |   19 -
> >  kernel/trace/fgraph.c                              |  127 +++-
> >  kernel/trace/fprobe.c                              |  638 ++++++++++++++------
> >  kernel/trace/ftrace.c                              |   10 
> >  kernel/trace/trace.h                               |    6 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c                        |  147 ++---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c               |   10 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c                       |    6 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h                    |    2 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c                  |    6 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c                      |   11 
> >  lib/test_fprobe.c                                  |   51 --
> >  samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c                    |    4 
> >  .../test.d/dynevent/add_remove_fprobe_repeat.tc    |   19 +
> >  .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/fprobe_syntax_errors.tc |    4 
> >  47 files changed, 1168 insertions(+), 630 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_fprobe_repeat.tc
> > 
> > --
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

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