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SubjectRe: [PATCHv3] arm: ftrace: Adds support for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 02:28:47PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:03:06PM +0000, Abel Vesa wrote:
> > The only problem I don't have a solution for at this point is OLD_LR (or
> > previous LR as it is called in this patch).
>
> If you want the context at function entry, then you need to save the
> registers as they were at that point.
>
> The stacking of LR in the gnu_mcount thing is there to avoid this problem:
>
> a:
> push {lr}
> bl __gnu_mcount_mc
>
> That "bl" instruction can be thought of as being effectively this:
>
> adr lr, 1f
> b __gnu_mcount_mc
> 1:
>
> and from that, you can plainly see that "lr" gets corrupted by the call.
> So, to save the register state as it was at point "a", you need to
> save (in order):
>
> r0 through to sp
> the saved lr on the stack (which was the value of lr at point a)
> the current lr (which is the value of the PC _after_ __gnu_mcount_mc
> returns)
> cpsr
> write zero to old_r0
>
> Stacking actual value of the PC at the point that you're stacking these
> registers is really senseless - it doesn't convey any useful information
> about the context being saved.
>
> Does it make sense to leave the compiler's saving of lr on the stack?
> Probably not - which I think my last iteration overwrote with the old_r0
Actually, the "compiler's saving of lr" is needed by prepare_ftrace_return
(which is called from __ftrace_graph_regs_caller/__ftrace_graph_caller) to
be replaced by return_to_handler.

> value. The only thing my last iteration did not do was save a real value
> for CPSR.
>
The stack needs to look like this:
Right before __gnu_mcount_mc is called:

0 4
| compiler's saving of lr | ... (we were wrong, stack was actually aligned to 8)

After regs saving in ftrace_regs_caller (the replacer of __gnu_mcount_mc):

0 4 8 52 56 60 64 68 72 76
| R0 | R1 | ... | SP + 4 | new LR | PC | CPSR | OLD_R0 | compiler's saving of lr | ...

this means the saving needs to be something like this:

sub sp, sp, #8 @ space for CPSR and OLD_R0 (not used at this point)
add ip, sp, #12 @ move in IP the value of SP as it was ( compute "SP + 4" )
stmdb sp!, {ip,lr,pc} @ push PC, new LR, "SP + 4" (in this order)
stmdb sp!, {r0-r11,lr} @ push new LR, R11 through to R0 (in this order)

And then the restoring needs to be like this:

ldr lr, [sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE] @ load "compiler's saved of lr"
ldmia sp, {r0-r11, ip, sp, pc} @ pop r0-r11, "new LR" in ip, "SP + 4" in SP
@ and "new LR" in PC

After this, SP would be at '76', PC will contain the address of the next instruction
after "b __gnu_mcount_mc", and LR will be "compiler's saved of lr". The only register
that would have a different value than before would be IP.

I know we can skip saving and restoring IP, but it doesn't seem to be worth it.

I hope this time I'm not mistaken.

> I didn't test it either...
>
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