Impact: make ftrace_convert_nops() more permissive

Due to the way different architecture linkers combine the data sections
of the mcount_loc (the section that lists all the locations that
call mcount), there may be zeros added in that section. This is usually
due to strange alignments that the linker performs, that pads in zeros.

This patch makes the conversion code to nops skip any pointer in
the mcount_loc section that is NULL.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: allow archs more flexibility on dynamic ftrace implementations

Dynamic ftrace has largly been developed on x86. Since x86 does not
have the same limitations as other architectures, the ftrace interaction
between the generic code and the architecture specific code was not
flexible enough to handle some of the issues that other architectures
have.

Most notably, module trampolines. Due to the limited branch distance
that archs make in calling kernel core code from modules, the module
load code must create a trampoline to jump to what will make the
larger jump into core kernel code.

The problem arises when this happens to a call to mcount. Ftrace checks
all code before modifying it and makes sure the current code is what
it expects. Right now, there is not enough information to handle modifying
module trampolines.

This patch changes the API between generic dynamic ftrace code and
the arch dependent code. There is now two functions for modifying code:

  ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, addr) - convert the code at rec->ip into
       a nop, where the original text is calling addr. (mod is the
       module struct if called by module init)

  ftrace_make_caller(rec, addr) - convert the code rec->ip that should
       be a nop into a caller to addr.

The record "rec" now has a new field called "arch" where the architecture
can add any special attributes to each call site record.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: keep from converting freed records

When the tracer is started or stopped, it converts all code pointed
to by the saved records into callers to ftrace or nops. When modules
are unloaded, their records are freed, but they still exist within
the record pages.

This patch changes the code to skip over freed records.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: robust feature to disable ftrace on start or stop tracing on error

Currently only the initial conversion to nops will disable ftrace
on an anomaly. But if an anomaly happens on start or stopping of the
tracer, it will silently fail.

This patch adds a check there too, to disable ftrace and warn if the
conversion fails.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: let module functions be recorded when dyn ftrace not enabled

When dynamic ftrace had a daemon and a hash to record the locations
of mcount callers at run time, the recording needed to stop when
ftrace was disabled. But now that the recording is done at compile time
and the ftrace_record_ip is only called at boot up and when a module
is loaded, we no longer need to check if ftrace_enabled is set.
In fact, this breaks module load if it is not set because we skip
over module functions.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Because it has goto out before ftrace_list == &ftrace_list_end,
that's to say, we never meet this condition.
Signed-off-by: Nwalimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added

Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop
recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also
be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the
ring buffers called:

 tracing_on()
 tracing_off()

When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record
into their buffers.

tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again.

These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the
number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called.

A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called

  tracing_on

This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch.

  echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

disables the tracing.

  echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

enables it.

Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears
a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to
their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers.

The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled.

There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers:

 tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers.

 buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set
     if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled.

 cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an
     anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if
     an anomaly occurred.

The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with
tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel
called tracing_stop().

Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it.
It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit.
tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is
it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace
can reenable it at any time.

Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c
  called tracing_on. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

Impact: add new tracing plugin which can trace full (entry+exit) function calls

This tracer uses the low level function return ftrace plugin to
measure the execution time of the kernel functions.

The first field is the caller of the function, the second is the
measured function, and the last one is the execution time in
nanoseconds.

- v3:

- HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER have been added. Each arch that support ftrace return
  should enable it.
- ftrace_return_stub becomes ftrace_stub.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER depends now on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
- Return traces printing can be used for other tracers on trace.c
- Adapt to the new tracing API (no more ctrl_update callback)
- Correct the check of "disabled" during insertion.
- Minor changes...
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

Commit ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer

This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().

It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.

The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.

x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: corrects a bug which made the non-dyn function tracer not functional

With latest git, the non-dynamic function tracer didn't get any trace.

The problem was the fact that ftrace_enabled wasn't initialized to 1
because ftrace hasn't any init function when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is disabled.

So when a tracer tries to register an ftrace_ops struct,
__register_ftrace_function failed to set the hook.

This patch corrects it by setting an init function to initialize
ftrace during the boot.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

this warning:

  kernel/trace/ftrace.c:189: warning: ‘frozen_record_count’ defined but not used

triggers because frozen_record_count is only used in the KCONFIG_MARKERS
case. Move the variable it there.

Alas, this frozen-record facility seems to have little use. The
frozen_record_count variable is not used by anything, nor the flags.

So this section might need a bit of dead-code-removal care as well.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

fix:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_release':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:271: error: implicit declaration of function 'ftrace_release_hash'

release_hash is not needed without dftraced.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The ftrace hash was used by the ftrace_daemon code. The record ip function
would place the calling address (ip) into the hash. The daemon would later
read the hash and modify that code.

The hash complicates the code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The ftrace daemon is complex and error prone.  This patch strips it out
of the code.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace as well as report a warning.

[ Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting using the WARN_ON return value ]
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When an anomaly is detected, we need a way to completely disable
ftrace. Right now we have two functions: ftrace_kill and ftrace_kill_atomic.
The ftrace_kill tries to do it in a "nice" way by converting everything
back to a nop.

The "nice" way is dangerous itself, so this patch removes it and only
has the "atomic" version, which is all that is needed.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Have the ftrace_modify_code return error values:

  -EFAULT on error of reading the address

  -EINVAL if what is read does not match what it expected

  -EPERM  if the write fails to update after a successful match.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The x86 architecture uses a static recording of mcount caller locations
and is not affected by this patch.

For architectures still using the dynamic ftrace daemon, this patch is
critical. It removes the race between the recording of a function that
calls mcount, the unloading of a module, and the ftrace daemon updating
the call sites.

This patch adds the releasing of the hash functions that the daemon uses
to update the mcount call sites. When a module is unloaded, not only
are the replaced call site table update, but now so is the hash recorded
functions that the ftrace daemon will use.

Again, architectures that implement MCOUNT_RECORD are not affected by
this (which currently only x86 has).
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

With the recent updates to ftrace, there should not be any failures when
modifying the code. If there is, then we need to warn about it.

This patch has a cleaned up version of the code that I used to discover
that the weak symbols were causing failures.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE isn't used, neither is mcount_addr. This
patch eliminates that warning.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This must be brown paper bag week for Steven Rostedt!

While working on ftrace for PPC, I discovered that the hash locking done
when CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is not set, is totally incorrect.

With a cut and paste error, I had the hash lock macro to lock for both
hash_lock _and_ hash_unlock!

This bug did not affect x86 since this bug was introduced when
CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD was added to x86.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The mcount record method of ftrace scans objdump for references to mcount.
Using mcount as the reference to test if the calls to mcount being replaced
are indeed calls to mcount, this use of mcount was also caught as a
location to change. Using a variable that points to the mcount address
moves this reference into the data section that is not scanned, and
we do not use a false location to try and modify.

The warn on code was what was used to detect this bug.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

enclose the argument in parenthesis. (especially since we cast it,
which is a high prio operation)
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

After disabling FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD via a patch, a dormant build
failure surfaced:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_record_ip':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:416: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:433: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'

Introduced by commit 6dad8e07f4c10b17b038e84d29f3ca41c2e55cd0 ("ftrace:
add necessary locking for ftrace records").
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The new design of pre-recorded mcounts and updating the code outside of
kstop_machine has changed the way the records themselves are protected.

This patch uses the ftrace_lock to protect the records. Note, the lock
still does not need to be taken within calls that are only called via
kstop_machine, since the that code can not run while the spin lock is held.

Also removed the hash_lock needed for the daemon when MCOUNT_RECORD is
configured. Also did a slight cleanup of an unused variable.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If one of the self tests of ftrace has disabled the function tracer,
do not run the code to convert the mcount calls in modules.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or
remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed
via removing a module, the pointers still exist.  At modifying the code
a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code
expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what
it is expected to be before being replaced.

There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens
to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount
is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to
allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module.

Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with
__init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Seems that freed records can appear in the available_filter_functions list.
This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
changing all the callers of mcount into nops.

The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Simple conversion.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

fix:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1615: error: 'ftraced_suspend' undeclared (first use in this function)
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1615: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1615: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It has been suggested that I add a way to disable the function tracer
on an oops. This code adds a ftrace_kill_atomic. It is not meant to be
used in normal situations. It will disable the ftrace tracer, but will
not perform the nice shutdown that requires scheduling.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

add two missing chunks for ftrace+kprobe.
Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Avoid modifying the mcount call-site if there is a kprobe installed on it.
These records are not marked as failed however. This allowed the filter
rules on them to remain up-to-date. Whenever the kprobe on the corresponding
record is removed, the record gets updated as normal.
Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Let records identified as being kprobe'd be marked as "frozen". The trouble
with records which have a kprobe installed on their mcount call-site is
that they don't get updated. So if such a function which is currently being
traced gets its tracing disabled due to a new filter rule (or because it
was added to the notrace list) then it won't be updated and continue being
traced. This patch allows scanning of all frozen records during tracing to
check if they should be traced.
Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.
Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>