[RFC PATCH 0/5] bpf: fprobe: rethook: Use ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google)]

Hi,

Here is RFC series to use ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs. But this includes
the generic part and minimum modifications of arch dependent code. (e.g. not
including rethook for arm64.) This series is based on the discussion at

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230801112036.0d4ee60d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

This has 5 patches,

 - Simply replace pt_regs in fprobe_entry_handler with ftrace_regs.
 - Replace pt_regs in rethook and fprobe_exit_handler with ftrace_regs. This
   introduce a new HAVE_PT_REGS_COMPAT_FTRACE_REGS which means ftrace_regs is
   just a wrapper of pt_regs (except for arm64, other architectures do this)
 - Update fprobe-events to use ftrace_regs natively.
 - Introduce ftrace_partial_regs(). (This changes ARM64 which needs a custom
   implementation)
 - Update bpf multi-kprobe handler use ftrace_partial_regs().

Florent, feel free to add your rethook for arm64, but please do not remove
kretprobe trampoline yet. It is another discussion point. We may be possible
to use ftrace_regs for kretprobe by ftrace_partial_regs() but kretprobe
allows nest probe. (maybe we can skip that case?)

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (5):
      fprobe: Use fprobe_regs in fprobe entry handler
      fprobe: rethook: Use fprobe_regs in fprobe exit handler and rethook
      tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
      ftrace: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs
      bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled


 arch/Kconfig                    |    1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h |   11 ++++++
 arch/loongarch/Kconfig          |    1 +
 arch/s390/Kconfig               |    1 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig                |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/rethook.c       |    9 +++--
 include/linux/fprobe.h          |    4 +-
 include/linux/ftrace.h          |   11 ++++++
 include/linux/rethook.h         |   11 +++---
 kernel/kprobes.c                |    9 ++++-
 kernel/trace/Kconfig            |    9 ++++-
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c        |   14 +++++--
 kernel/trace/fprobe.c           |    8 ++--
 kernel/trace/rethook.c          |   16 ++++----
 kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c     |   76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h |    2 +
 lib/test_fprobe.c               |   10 +++--
 samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c |    4 +-
 18 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>