Replace ldr xN, =<symbol> with adrp/add or adrp/ldr [as appropriate]
in the implementation of _mcount(), which may be called very often.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Nothing sets function_trace_stop to disable function tracing anymore.
Remove the check for it in the arch code.
arm64 was broken anyway, as it had an ifdef testing
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST which is only set if
the arch supports the code (which it obviously did not), and
it was testing a non existent ftrace_trace_stop instead of
function_trace_stop.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140627124421.GP26276@arm.com
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch allows "dynamic ftrace" if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled.
Here we can turn on and off tracing dynamically per-function base.
On arm64, this is done by patching single branch instruction to _mcount()
inserted by gcc -pg option. The branch is replaced to NOP initially at
kernel start up, and later on, NOP to branch to ftrace_caller() when
enabled or branch to NOP when disabled.
Please note that ftrace_caller() is a counterpart of _mcount() in case of
'static' ftrace.
More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers,
such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER).
With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with
timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is
specified, call graph is generated.
The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted
at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's
entry as long as tracing is enabled.
In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's
exit. ftrace_graph_caller() & return_to_handler do this by faking link
register's value to intercept function's return path.
More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.
Reviewed-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
