Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing/x86: Save CR2 before tracing irqsoff on error_entry

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:27:00AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Well, here's pass zero at this.  Untested, because it obviously
> doesn't work.  Here are just a few things that are almost certainly
> wrong with it

Aah, you're proposing to simply not do TRACE_IRQS_OFF and
CALL_enter_from_user_mode and let \do_sym deal with it all.

Yes, that looks like it could almost work; esp. if you start by only
doing this for the idtentry stuff.

>  - The IRQ tracing needs to be re-added.
> 
>  - Some real semantics need to be defined for precisely what code is
> responsible for tracing.

So we get passed \do_sym, how about we do:

	call	__\do_sym

And then use some CPP magic to generate the those functions such that we
have a consistent part of C glue between our asm and our 'real' C
handler.

This glue can then do the tracing in a consistent manner.

#define IDT_HANDLER(do_sym)						\
asmlinkage __visible notrace void __do_sym(struct pt_regs *regs)	\
{									\
	trace_hardirqs_off();						\
	if (user_mode(regs))						\
		enter_from_user_mode();					\
	do_sym(regs);							\
}

Except more complicated I'm afraid, we need to handle more args etc..

>  - We need some asm-callable assertions to check the following
> conditions as appropriate:
> 
>  (a) that IRQ flags are currently traced as off.

What do you need this for? When returning from do_sym ?

>  (b) that IRQ flags are currently traced to match the IRET frame.

idem. Can't we have our C glue do that?

>  (c) that our context tracking is currently in good shape.  I'm not
> 100% sure how to define this.

So looking at this more; I used the %ebx games employed by
paranoid_entry to convey the state, but I didn't have to do that, the
actual condition seems to be:

	regs->cs & 3

aka. user_mode(regs). In this case our C glue would need to do the
context tracking user exit.

In fact, I can change my patch to use that and reduce the ebx ugly.

>  - We need to do some serious don't-instrument-me stuff to all the C
> entries, since we're now in an awful context when calling them.

Yah, but that's not new. do_page_fault(), sync_regs() at the very least
have this, so we can easily have our C glue have this too.