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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, will@kernel.org,
	samitolvanen@google.com, keescook@chromium.org,
	mhiramat@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Allow WITH_ARGS flavour of graph tracer with shadow call stack
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 16:51:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221209165139.37d033ee@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y5NI2TKtGbDKyt53@FVFF77S0Q05N>

On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 14:40:25 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 03:34:02PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > The recent switch on arm64 from DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS to
> > DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS failed to take into account that we currently
> > require the former in order to allow the function graph tracer to be
> > enabled in combination with shadow call stacks. This means that this is
> > no longer permitted at all, in spite of the fact that either flavour of
> > ftrace works perfectly fine in this combination.
> > 
> > Given that arm64 is the only arch that implements shadow call stacks in
> > the first place, let's update the condition to just reflect the arm64
> > change. When other architectures adopt shadow call stack support, this
> > can be revisited if needed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>  
> 
> My bad; sorry about this, and thanks for the fix!
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> 
> We should probably also add:
> 
> Fixes: 26299b3f6ba26bfc ("ftrace: arm64: move from REGS to ARGS")

Actually, I believe it is:

Fixes: ddc9863e9e90 ("scs: Disable when function graph tracing is enabled")

As according to the comments, scs is broken with function graph unless
function graph is using the ftrace mechanism. And that is only true if
WITH_ARGS is set, not REGS.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-09 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 14:34 [PATCH] ftrace: Allow WITH_ARGS flavour of graph tracer with shadow call stack Ard Biesheuvel
2022-12-09 14:40 ` Mark Rutland
2022-12-09 21:51   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2022-12-12 10:36     ` Mark Rutland
2022-12-13 11:36       ` Will Deacon
2022-12-11  3:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2022-12-12 10:46   ` Mark Rutland

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