ftrace/x86: Add dynamic allocated trampoline for ftrace_ops

The current method of handling multiple function callbacks is to register
a list function callback that calls all the other callbacks based on
their hash tables and compare it to the function that the callback was
called on. But this is very inefficient.

For example, if you are tracing all functions in the kernel and then
add a kprobe to a function such that the kprobe uses ftrace, the
mcount trampoline will switch from calling the function trace callback
to calling the list callback that will iterate over all registered
ftrace_ops (in this case, the function tracer and the kprobes callback).
That means for every function being traced it checks the hash of the
ftrace_ops for function tracing and kprobes, even though the kprobes
is only set at a single function. The kprobes ftrace_ops is checked
for every function being traced!

Instead of calling the list function for functions that are only being
traced by a single callback, we can call a dynamically allocated
trampoline that calls the callback directly. The function graph tracer
already uses a direct call trampoline when it is being traced by itself
but it is not dynamically allocated. It's trampoline is static in the
kernel core. The infrastructure that called the function graph trampoline
can also be used to call a dynamically allocated one.

For now, only ftrace_ops that are not dynamically allocated can have
a trampoline. That is, users such as function tracer or stack tracer.
kprobes and perf allocate their ftrace_ops, and until there's a safe
way to free the trampoline, it can not be used. The dynamically allocated
ftrace_ops may, although, use the trampoline if the kernel is not
compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. But that will come later.

Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 662697babd48..06e3ca5a5083 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ ftrace_func_t ftrace_ops_get_func(struct ftrace_ops *ops);
  * ADDING  - The ops is in the process of being added.
  * REMOVING - The ops is in the process of being removed.
  * MODIFYING - The ops is in the process of changing its filter functions.
+ * ALLOC_TRAMP - A dynamic trampoline was allocated by the core code.
+ *            The arch specific code sets this flag when it allocated a
+ *            trampoline. This lets the arch know that it can update the
+ *            trampoline in case the callback function changes.
+ *            The ftrace_ops trampoline can be set by the ftrace users, and
+ *            in such cases the arch must not modify it. Only the arch ftrace
+ *            core code should set this flag.
  */
 enum {
 	FTRACE_OPS_FL_ENABLED			= 1 << 0,
@@ -108,6 +115,7 @@ enum {
 	FTRACE_OPS_FL_ADDING			= 1 << 9,
 	FTRACE_OPS_FL_REMOVING			= 1 << 10,
 	FTRACE_OPS_FL_MODIFYING			= 1 << 11,
+	FTRACE_OPS_FL_ALLOC_TRAMP		= 1 << 12,
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE