[PATCH] x86/ftrace: Get rid of function_hook

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 10:11:21 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

function_hook is used as a better name than the default __fentry__
which is the profiling counter which gcc adds before every function's
prologue. Thus, it is not called from C and cannot have the same
semantics as a pure C function - it saves/restores regs so that a C
function can be called.

Drop the function_hook symbol and use __fentry__ directly for better
alignment with gcc's documentation.

Switch the marking to SYM_CODE_START/_END which is reserved for
non-standard, special functions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/asm-annotations.rst | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S | 8 +++-----
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S | 13 ++++++-------
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
index 29ccd6e61fe5..f55c2bb74d00 100644
--- a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
+++ b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ This section covers ``SYM_FUNC_*`` and ``SYM_CODE_*`` enumerated above.
So in most cases, developers should write something like in the following
example, having some asm instructions in between the macros, of course::

- SYM_FUNC_START(function_hook)
+ SYM_FUNC_START(memset)
... asm insns ...
- SYM_FUNC_END(function_hook)
+ SYM_FUNC_END(memset)

In fact, this kind of annotation corresponds to the now deprecated ``ENTRY``
and ``ENDPROC`` macros.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S
index 8ed1f5d371f0..77be7e7e5e59 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S
@@ -12,18 +12,16 @@
#include <asm/frame.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>

-# define function_hook __fentry__
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__)
-
#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
# define MCOUNT_FRAME 1 /* using frame = true */
#else
# define MCOUNT_FRAME 0 /* using frame = false */
#endif

-SYM_FUNC_START(function_hook)
+SYM_CODE_START(__fentry__)
ret
-SYM_FUNC_END(function_hook)
+SYM_CODE_END(__fentry__)
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__)

SYM_CODE_START(ftrace_caller)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S
index 69c8d1b9119e..3029fe4f8547 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
.code64
.section .entry.text, "ax"

-# define function_hook __fentry__
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__)
-
#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
/* Save parent and function stack frames (rip and rbp) */
# define MCOUNT_FRAME_SIZE (8+16*2)
@@ -132,9 +129,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__)

#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

-SYM_FUNC_START(function_hook)
+SYM_CODE_START(__fentry__)
retq
-SYM_FUNC_END(function_hook)
+SYM_CODE_END(__fentry__)
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__)

SYM_FUNC_START(ftrace_caller)
/* save_mcount_regs fills in first two parameters */
@@ -248,7 +246,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(ftrace_regs_caller)

#else /* ! CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */

-SYM_FUNC_START(function_hook)
+SYM_CODE_START(__fentry__)
cmpq $ftrace_stub, ftrace_trace_function
jnz trace

@@ -279,7 +277,8 @@ trace:
restore_mcount_regs

jmp fgraph_trace
-SYM_FUNC_END(function_hook)
+SYM_CODE_END(__fentry__)
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__)
#endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */

#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
--
2.21.0


--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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