Re: [PATCH] asm-generic/io: Add _RET_IP_ to MMIO trace for more accurate debug info

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:04:50 +0530
Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Due to compiler optimizations like inlining, there are cases where
> MMIO traces using _THIS_IP_ for caller information might not be
> sufficient to provide accurate debug traces.
> 
> 1) With optimizations (Seen with GCC):
> 
> In this case, _THIS_IP_ works fine and prints the caller information
> since it will be inlined into the caller and we get the debug traces
> on who made the MMIO access, for ex:
> 
> rwmmio_read: qcom_smmu_tlb_sync+0xe0/0x1b0 width=32 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> rwmmio_post_read: qcom_smmu_tlb_sync+0xe0/0x1b0 width=32 val=0x0 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> 
> 2) Without optimizations (Seen with Clang):
> 
> _THIS_IP_ will not be sufficient in this case as it will print only
> the MMIO accessors itself which is of not much use since it is not
> inlined as below for example:
> 
> rwmmio_read: readl+0x4/0x80 width=32 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> rwmmio_post_read: readl+0x48/0x80 width=32 val=0x4 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> 
> So in order to handle this second case as well irrespective of the compiler
> optimizations, add _RET_IP_ to MMIO trace to make it provide more accurate
> debug information in all these scenarios.
> 
> Before:
> 
> rwmmio_read: readl+0x4/0x80 width=32 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> rwmmio_post_read: readl+0x48/0x80 width=32 val=0x4 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> 
> After:
> 
> rwmmio_read: qcom_smmu_tlb_sync+0xe0/0x1b0 -> readl+0x4/0x80 width=32 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> rwmmio_post_read: qcom_smmu_tlb_sync+0xe0/0x1b0 -> readl+0x4/0x80 width=32 val=0x0 addr=0xffff8000087447f4
> 
> Fixes: 210031971cdd ("asm-generic/io: Add logging support for MMIO accessors")
> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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-- Steve