The mcount call on Blackfin systems includes some stack manipulation
around the actual call site, so extend the build time perl script to
support this. This way we can avoid doing the calculation at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1281079584-21205-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I found this issue in a locally patched 2.6.32.x, current kernels have
moved the offending code to an __init function which is skipped by
recordmcount.pl, so the bug is not currently being exercised.
However, I think the patch is still a good idea, to avoid future
problems if _mcount were to ever have its address taken in normal
code.
This is what I originally saw:
Although arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c is built without -pg, and thus
contains no calls to _mcount, it does use the address of _mcount
in ftrace_make_nop(). This was causing relocations to be emitted
for _mcount which recordmcount.pl erronously took to be _mcount
call sites. The result was that the text of ftrace_make_nop()
would be patched with garbage leading to a system crash.
In non-module code, all _mcount call sites will have R_MIPS_26
relocations, so we restrict $mcount_regex to only match on these.
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278712325-12050-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Let the arch argument be overruled by bits. Otherwise, building of
external modules against a i386 target on a x86-64 host (and likely vice
versa as well) fails unless ARCH=i386 is explicitly passed to make.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4AFE10.8050109@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With dynamic function tracer, by default, _mcount is defined as an
"empty" function, it returns directly without any more action . When
enabling it in user-space, it will jump to a real tracing
function(ftrace_caller), and do the real job for us.
Differ from the static function tracer, dynamic function tracer provides
two functions ftrace_make_call()/ftrace_make_nop() to enable/disable the
tracing of some indicated kernel functions(set_ftrace_filter).
In the -v4 version, the implementation of this support is basically the same as
X86 version does: _mcount is implemented as an empty function and ftrace_caller
is implemented as a real tracing function respectively.
But in this version, to support module tracing with the help of
-mlong-calls in arch/mips/Makefile:
MODFLAGS += -mlong-calls.
The stuff becomes a little more complex. We need to cope with two
different type of calling to _mcount.
For the kernel part, the calling to _mcount(result of "objdump -hdr
vmlinux"). is like this:
108: 03e0082d move at,ra
10c: 0c000000 jal 0 <fpcsr_pending>
10c: R_MIPS_26 _mcount
10c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
10c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
110: 00020021 nop
For the module with -mlong-calls, it looks like this:
c: 3c030000 lui v1,0x0
c: R_MIPS_HI16 _mcount
c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
10: 64630000 daddiu v1,v1,0
10: R_MIPS_LO16 _mcount
10: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
10: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
14: 03e0082d move at,ra
18: 0060f809 jalr v1
In the kernel version, there is only one "_mcount" string for every
kernel function, so, we just need to match this one in mcount_regex of
scripts/recordmcount.pl, but in the module version, we need to choose
one of the two to match. Herein, I choose the first one with
"R_MIPS_HI16 _mcount".
and In the kernel verion, without module tracing support, we just need
to replace "jal _mcount" by "jal ftrace_caller" to do real tracing, and
filter the tracing of some kernel functions via replacing it by a nop
instruction.
but as we have described before, the instruction "jal ftrace_caller" only left
32bit length for the address of ftrace_caller, it will fail when calling from
the module space. so, herein, we must replace something else.
the basic idea is loading the address of ftrace_caller to v1 via changing these
two instructions:
lui v1,0x0
addiu v1,v1,0
If we want to enable the tracing, we need to replace the above instructions to:
lui v1, HI_16BIT_ftrace_caller
addiu v1, v1, LOW_16BIT_ftrace_caller
If we want to stop the tracing of the indicated kernel functions, we
just need to replace the "jalr v1" to a nop instruction. but we need to
replace two instructions and encode the above two instructions
oursevles.
Is there a simpler solution? Yes! Here it is, in this version, we put _mcount
and ftrace_caller together, which means the address of _mcount and
ftrace_caller is the same:
_mcount:
ftrace_caller:
j ftrace_stub
nop
...(do real tracing here)...
ftrace_stub:
jr ra
move ra, at
By default, the kernel functions call _mcount, and then jump to ftrace_stub and
return. and when we want to do real tracing, we just need to remove that "j
ftrace_stub", and it will run through the two "nop" instructions and then do
the real tracing job.
what about filtering job? we just need to do this:
lui v1, hi_16bit_of_mcount <--> b 1f (0x10000004)
addiu v1, v1, low_16bit_of_mcount
move at, ra
jalr v1
nop
1f: (rec->ip + 12)
In linux-mips64, there will be some local symbols, whose name are
prefixed by $L, which need to be filtered. thanks goes to Steven for
writing the mips64-specific function_regex.
In a conclusion, with RISC, things becomes easier with such a "stupid"
trick, RISC is something like K.I.S.S, and also, there are lots of
"simple" tricks in the whole ftrace support, thanks goes to Steven and
the other folks for providing such a wonderful tracing framework!
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/675/
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
With dynamic function tracer, by default, _mcount is defined as an
"empty" function, it returns directly without any more action. When
enabling it in user-space, it will jump to a real tracing
function(ftrace_caller), and do the real job for us.
Differ from the static function tracer, dynamic function tracer provides
two functions ftrace_make_call()/ftrace_make_nop() to enable/disable the
tracing of some indicated kernel functions(set_ftrace_filter).
In the kernel version, there is only one "_mcount" string for every
kernel function, so, we just need to match this one in mcount_regex of
scripts/recordmcount.pl.
For more information please look at code and Documentation/trace folder.
Steven ACK that scripts/recordmcount.pl part.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
If the user has an older version of objcopy, that can not handle
converting local symbols to global and vice versa, then some
functions will not be part of the dynamic function tracer. The current
code in recordmcount.pl will print a warning in this case. Unfortunately,
there exists lots of files that may have this issue with older objcopys
and this will cause a warning for every file compiled with this
issue.
This patch solves this overwhelming output by creating a
.tmp_quiet_recordmcount file on the first instance the warning is
encountered. The warning will not print if this file exists.
The temp file is deleted at the beginning of the compile to ensure that
the warning will happen once again on new compiles (because the issue
is still present).
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If a weak function is used as a relocation reference for mcount callers
and that function is overridden, it will cause ftrace to fail at run time.
The current code should prevent a weak function from being used, but if
one is, the code should exit with an error to fail at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050743.GH30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move all the condition validations into the function update_funcs().
Also update_funcs should not die if $ref_func is undefined for there may be
more than one valid section in an object file.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050703.GG30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a variable to contain the regex needed to find weak functions
in the 'nm' output. This will allow other archs to easily override it.
Also rename the regex variable $nm_regex to $local_regex to be more
descriptive.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050619.GF30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move the mcount section check to the beginning of the objdump read loop.
This makes the code easier to follow since the search for the mcount
section is performed first before the mcount callers are processed.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050523.GE30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current logic to check objcopy's version is incorrect. This patch
fixes the algorithm and disables the use of local functions as a reference
if the objcopy version does not support static to global conversions.
Also remove some usused variables.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050421.GD30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ftrace.c file may reference the mcount function and this may interfere
with the recordmcount.pl processing. To avoid this, the code does not
process the kernel/trace/ftrace.o. But currently the check is against
a relative path. This patch modifies the check to succeed if the path
is an absolute path.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050332.GC30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The number of arguments passed into recordmcount.pl is 10, but the code
checks if only 7 are passed in.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091027065733.GB22032@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The documentation currently says we will use the first function in a section
as a reference. The actual algorithm is: choose the first global function we
meet as a reference. If there is none, choose the first local one.
Change the documentation to be consistent with the code.
Also add several other clarifications.
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091028050138.GA30758@uhli>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Based on the commit:
a586df06 "x86: Support __attribute__((__cold__)) in gcc 4.3"
some of the functions goes to the ".text.unlikely" section.
Looks like there's not many of them (I found printk, panic,
__ssb_dma_not_implemented, fat_fs_error), but still worth to
include I think.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203426.175845614@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Roland Dreier found that a section that contained only a weak
function in one of the staging drivers and this caused
recordmcount.pl to spit out a warning and fail.
Although it is strange that a driver would have a weak function, and
this function only be used in one place, it should not be something
to make recordmcount.pl fail.
This patch fixes the issue in a simple manner: if only weak
functions exist in a section, then that section will not be
recorded.
Reported-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > So I spent 3-4 hrs today (I'm stupid yes) tracking down a .o
> > breakage by blaming rawhide gcc/binutils as I was using make
> > V=1and seeing only the compiler chain running,
>
> Hm, is this that powerpc related build bug you just reported?
Well we tracked it down and it is powerpc64 specific.
Seems that in drivers/hwmon/lm93.c there's a function called:
LM93_IN_FROM_REG()
But PPC64 has function descriptors and the real function names (the ones
you see in objdump) start with a '.'. Thus this in objdump you have:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000000000 <.LM93_IN_FROM_REG>:
0: 7c 08 02 a6 mflr r0
4: fb 81 ff e0 std r28,-32(r1)
The function name used is .LM93_IN_FROM_REG. But gcc considers symbols
that start with ".L" as a special symbol that is used inside the assembly
stage.
The nm passed into recordmcount uses the --synthetic option which shows
the ".L" symbols (my runs outside of the build did not include the
--synthetic option, so my older patch worked). We see the function as a
local.
Now to capture all the locations that use "mcount" we need to have a
reference to link into the object file a list of mcount callers. We need a
reference that will not disappear. We try to use a global function and if
that does not work, we use a local function as a reference. But to relink
the section back into the object, we need to make it global. In this case,
we run objcopy using --globalize-symbol and --localize-symbol to convert
the symbol into a global symbol, link the mcount list, then convert it
back to a local symbol.
This works great except for this case. .L* symbols can not be converted
into a global symbol, and the mcount section referencing it will remain
unresolved.
Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908052011590.5010@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The value of $offset should be the offset of $ref_func from the
beginning of the object file. Therefore, we should set both variables
together.
This fixes a bug I was hitting on sh where $offset (which is used to
calcualte the addends for the __mcount_loc entries) was being set
multiple times and didn't correspond to $ref_func's offset in the object
file. The addends in __mcount_loc were calculated incorrectly, resulting
in ftrace dynamically modifying addresses that weren't mcount call
sites.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
LKML-Reference: <1248365775-25196-2-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix the conditional that checks if we already have a $ref_func and that
the new function is weak. The code as previously checking whether either
condition was false, and we really need to only update $ref_func is both
cconditions are false.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
LKML-Reference: <1248365775-25196-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
