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    parisc: add dynamic ftrace · 6ca63662
    Sven Schnelle authored
    This patch implements dynamic ftrace for PA-RISC. The required mcount
    call sequences can get pretty long, so instead of patching the
    whole call sequence out of the functions, we are using
    -fpatchable-function-entry from gcc. This puts a configurable amount of
    NOPS before/at the start of the function. Taking do_sys_open() as example,
    which would look like this when the call is patched out:
    
    1036b248:       08 00 02 40     nop
    1036b24c:       08 00 02 40     nop
    1036b250:       08 00 02 40     nop
    1036b254:       08 00 02 40     nop
    
    1036b258 <do_sys_open>:
    1036b258:       08 00 02 40     nop
    1036b25c:       08 03 02 41     copy r3,r1
    1036b260:       6b c2 3f d9     stw rp,-14(sp)
    1036b264:       08 1e 02 43     copy sp,r3
    1036b268:       6f c1 01 00     stw,ma r1,80(sp)
    
    When ftrace gets enabled for this function the kernel will patch these
    NOPs to:
    
    1036b248:       10 19 57 20     <address of ftrace>
    1036b24c:       6f c1 00 80     stw,ma r1,40(sp)
    1036b250:       48 21 3f d1     ldw -18(r1),r1
    1036b254:       e8 20 c0 02     bv,n r0(r1)
    
    1036b258 <do_sys_open>:
    1036b258:       e8 3f 1f df     b,l,n .-c,r1
    1036b25c:       08 03 02 41     copy r3,r1
    1036b260:       6b c2 3f d9     stw rp,-14(sp)
    1036b264:       08 1e 02 43     copy sp,r3
    1036b268:       6f c1 01 00     stw,ma r1,80(sp)
    
    So the first NOP in do_sys_open() will be patched to jump backwards into
    some minimal trampoline code which pushes a stackframe, saves r1 which
    holds the return address, loads the address of the real ftrace function,
    and branches to that location. For 64 Bit things are getting a bit more
    complicated (and longer) because we must make sure that the address of
    ftrace location is 8 byte aligned, and the offset passed to ldd for
    fetching the address is 8 byte aligned as well.
    
    Note that gcc has a bug which misplaces the function label, and needs a
    patch to make dynamic ftrace work. See
    https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90751 for details.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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