From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Mark Rutland' <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/8] arm64/ftrace: Add support for DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:55:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34e0144b19e149d99719a5ffc834f228@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230109135828.879136-1-mark.rutland@arm.com>
From: Mark Rutland
> Sent: 09 January 2023 13:58
>
> This series adds a new DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS mechanism, and
> enables support for this on arm64. This significantly reduces the
> overhead of tracing when a callsite/tracee has a single associated
> tracer, avoids a number of issues that make it undesireably and
> infeasible to use dynamically-allocated trampolines (e.g. branch range
> limitations), and makes it possible to implement support for
> DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS in future.
>
> The main idea is to give each ftrace callsite an associated pointer to
> an ftrace_ops. The architecture's ftrace_caller trampoline can recover
> the ops pointer and invoke ops->func from this without needing to use
> ftrace_ops_list_func, which has to iterate through all registered ops.
>
> To do this, we use -fpatchable-function-entry=M,N, there N NOPs are
> placed before the function entry point...
Doesn't this bump the minimum gcc version up to something like 9.0 ?
How does it interact with the 'CFI stuff' that also uses the same area?
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-10 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-09 13:58 [PATCH 0/8] arm64/ftrace: Add support for DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 1/8] Compiler attributes: GCC function alignment workarounds Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 14:43 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-01-09 17:06 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 22:35 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-01-11 18:27 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-12 11:38 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-13 12:49 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-15 21:32 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 2/8] ACPI: Don't build ACPICA with '-Os' Mark Rutland
2023-01-10 13:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 3/8] arm64: Extend support for CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT Mark Rutland
2023-01-10 20:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-01-10 20:43 ` Will Deacon
2023-01-11 11:39 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-11 11:36 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 4/8] ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS Mark Rutland
2023-01-12 6:48 ` Li Huafei
2023-01-12 11:00 ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-13 1:15 ` Li Huafei
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 5/8] arm64: insn: Add helpers for BTI Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 6/8] arm64: patching: Add aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64() Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 7/8] arm64: ftrace: Update stale comment Mark Rutland
2023-01-09 13:58 ` [PATCH 8/8] arm64: Implement HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS Mark Rutland
2023-01-10 8:55 ` David Laight [this message]
2023-01-10 10:31 ` [PATCH 0/8] arm64/ftrace: Add support for DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS Mark Rutland
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