[PATCH 2/4] x86/kprobes: Fix frame pointer annotations

[jpoimboe at redhat.com (Josh Poimboeuf)]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:14:31AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> But what I'd love to do is something like the belwo patch, and make all
> the trampolines (very much including ftrace) use that. Such that we then
> only have 1 copy of this magic (well, 2 because x86_64 also needs an
> implementation of this of course).
> 
> Changing ftrace over to this would be a little more work but it can
> easily chain things a little to get its original context back:
> 
> ENTRY(ftrace_regs_caller)
> GLOBAL(ftrace_regs_func)
> 	push ftrace_stub
> 	push ftrace_regs_handler
> 	jmp call_to_exception_trampoline
> END(ftrace_regs_caller)
> 
> typedef void (*ftrace_func_t)(unsigned long, unsigned long, struct ftrace_op *, struct pt_regs *);
> 
> struct ftrace_regs_stack {
> 	ftrace_func_t func;
> 	unsigned long parent_ip;
> };
> 
> void ftrace_regs_handler(struct pr_regs *regs)
> {
> 	struct ftrace_regs_stack *st = (void *)regs->sp;
> 	ftrace_func_t func = st->func;
> 
> 	regs->sp += sizeof(long); /* pop func */
> 
> 	func(regs->ip, st->parent_ip, function_trace_op, regs);
> }
> 
> Hmm? I didn't look into the function_graph thing, but I imagine it can
> be added without too much pain.

I like this patch a lot, assuming it can be made to work for the
different users.

-- 
Josh