ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default

Currently, the only way to get access to the registers of a function via a
ftrace callback is to set the "FL_SAVE_REGS" bit in the ftrace_ops. But as this
saves all regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger (for use with kprobes), it
is expensive.

The regs are already saved on the stack for the default ftrace callbacks, as
that is required otherwise a function being traced will get the wrong
arguments and possibly crash. And on x86, the arguments are already stored
where they would be on a pt_regs structure to use that code for both the
regs version of a callback, it makes sense to pass that information always
to all functions.

If an architecture does this (as x86_64 now does), it is to set
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, and this will let the generic code that it
could have access to arguments without having to set the flags.

This also includes having the stack pointer being saved, which could be used
for accessing arguments on the stack, as well as having the function graph
tracer not require its own trampoline!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
+	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS	if X86_64
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
 	select HAVE_EBPF_JIT
 	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h

@@ -41,6 +41,21 @@ static inline void arch_ftrace_set_direct_caller(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned
 	regs->orig_ax = addr;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
+struct ftrace_regs {
+	struct pt_regs		regs;
+};
+
+static __always_inline struct pt_regs *
+arch_ftrace_get_regs(struct ftrace_regs *fregs)
+{
+	/* Only when FL_SAVE_REGS is set, cs will be non zero */
+	if (!fregs->regs.cs)
+		return NULL;
+	return &fregs->regs;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 
 struct dyn_arch_ftrace {

arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S

@@ -140,12 +140,19 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(ftrace_caller)
 	/* save_mcount_regs fills in first two parameters */
 	save_mcount_regs
 
+	/* Stack - skipping return address of ftrace_caller */
+	leaq MCOUNT_REG_SIZE+8(%rsp), %rcx
+	movq %rcx, RSP(%rsp)
+
 SYM_INNER_LABEL(ftrace_caller_op_ptr, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
 	/* Load the ftrace_ops into the 3rd parameter */
 	movq function_trace_op(%rip), %rdx
 
-	/* regs go into 4th parameter (but make it NULL) */
-	movq $0, %rcx
+	/* regs go into 4th parameter */
+	leaq (%rsp), %rcx
+
+	/* Only ops with REGS flag set should have CS register set */
+	movq $0, CS(%rsp)
 
 SYM_INNER_LABEL(ftrace_call, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
 	call ftrace_stub

include/linux/ftrace.h

@@ -90,16 +90,21 @@ ftrace_enable_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 struct ftrace_ops;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
+
 struct ftrace_regs {
 	struct pt_regs		regs;
 };
+#define arch_ftrace_get_regs(fregs) (&(fregs)->regs)
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS */
 
 static __always_inline struct pt_regs *ftrace_get_regs(struct ftrace_regs *fregs)
 {
 	if (!fregs)
 		return NULL;
 
-	return &fregs->regs;
+	return arch_ftrace_get_regs(fregs);
 }
 
 typedef void (*ftrace_func_t)(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,

kernel/trace/Kconfig

@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
 	bool
 
+config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
+	bool
+	help
+	 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
+	 the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
+	 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
+	 This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and
+	 kernel_stack_pointer().
+
 config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
 	bool
 	help