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    ftrace: Add sample with custom ops · b56c68f7
    Mark Rutland authored
    When reworking core ftrace code or architectural ftrace code, it's often
    necessary to test/analyse/benchmark a number of ftrace_ops
    configurations. This patch adds a module which can be used to explore
    some of those configurations.
    
    I'm using this to benchmark various options for changing the way
    trampolines and handling of ftrace_ops work on arm64, and ensuring other
    architectures aren't adversely affected.
    
    For example, in a QEMU+KVM VM running on a 2GHz Xeon E5-2660
    workstation, loading the module in various configurations produces:
    
    | # insmod ftrace-ops.ko
    | ftrace_ops: registering:
    |   relevant ops: 1
    |     tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   irrelevant ops: 0
    |     tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   saving registers: NO
    |   assist recursion: NO
    |   assist RCU: NO
    | ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 1681558ns (16ns / call)
    
    | # insmod ftrace-ops.ko nr_ops_irrelevant=5
    | ftrace_ops: registering:
    |   relevant ops: 1
    |     tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   irrelevant ops: 5
    |     tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   saving registers: NO
    |   assist recursion: NO
    |   assist RCU: NO
    | ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 1693042ns (16ns / call)
    
    | # insmod ftrace-ops.ko nr_ops_relevant=2
    | ftrace_ops: registering:
    |   relevant ops: 2
    |     tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   irrelevant ops: 0
    |     tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   saving registers: NO
    |   assist recursion: NO
    |   assist RCU: NO
    | ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 11965582ns (119ns / call)
    
    | # insmod ftrace-ops.ko save_regs=true
    | ftrace_ops: registering:
    |   relevant ops: 1
    |     tracee: tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   irrelevant ops: 0
    |     tracee: tracee_irrelevant [ftrace_ops]
    |     tracer: ops_func_nop [ftrace_ops]
    |   saving registers: YES
    |   assist recursion: NO
    |   assist RCU: NO
    | ftrace_ops: Attempted 100000 calls to tracee_relevant [ftrace_ops] in 4459624ns (44ns / call)
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103124912.2948963-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
    
    Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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