Re: [RFC] ftrace: Add support to keep some functions out of ftrace

Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-17T16:58:02Z

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 2:29 AM Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 08:56:33AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 05:48:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 08:35:53AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:28 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 08:17:42AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > > > > It's hiding a fake function from ftrace, since it's not a function
> > > > > > and ftrace infra shouldn't show it tracing logs.
> > > > > > In other words it's a _notrace_ function with nop5.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then make it a notrace function with a nop5 in it. That isn't hard.
> > > >
> > > > That's exactly what we're trying to do.
> > >
> > > All the while claiming ftrace is broken while it is not.
> > >
> > > > Jiri's patch is one way to achieve that.
> > >
> > > Fairly horrible way.
> > >
> > > > What is your suggestion?
> > >
> > > Mailed it already.
> > >
> > > > Move it from C to asm ?
> > >
> > > Would be much better than proposed IMO.
> >
> > nice, that would be independent of the compiler atributes
> > and config checking.. will check on this one ;-)
>
> how about something like below?
>
> dispatcher code is generated only for x86_64, so that will be covered
> by the assembly version (free of ftrace table) other archs stay same
>
> jirka
>
>
> ----
> diff --git a/arch/x86/net/Makefile b/arch/x86/net/Makefile
> index 383c87300b0d..94964002eaae 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/net/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/net/Makefile
> @@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y)
> obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_JIT) += bpf_jit_comp32.o
> else
> obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_JIT) += bpf_jit_comp.o
> + obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_JIT) += bpf_dispatcher.o
> endif
> diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_dispatcher.S b/arch/x86/net/bpf_dispatcher.S
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..65790a1286e8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_dispatcher.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#include <linux/linkage.h>
> +#include <asm/nops.h>
> +#include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
> +
> + .text
> +SYM_FUNC_START(bpf_dispatcher_xdp_func)
> + ASM_NOP5
> + JMP_NOSPEC rdx
> +SYM_FUNC_END(bpf_dispatcher_xdp_func)

Wait. Why asm ? Did you try Peter's suggestion:
__attribute__((__no_instrument_function__))
__attribute__((patchable_function_entry(5)))

?