ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default

Currently, the only way to get access to the registers of a function via a
ftrace callback is to set the "FL_SAVE_REGS" bit in the ftrace_ops. But as this
saves all regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger (for use with kprobes), it
is expensive.

The regs are already saved on the stack for the default ftrace callbacks, as
that is required otherwise a function being traced will get the wrong
arguments and possibly crash. And on x86, the arguments are already stored
where they would be on a pt_regs structure to use that code for both the
regs version of a callback, it makes sense to pass that information always
to all functions.

If an architecture does this (as x86_64 now does), it is to set
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, and this will let the generic code that it
could have access to arguments without having to set the flags.

This also includes having the stack pointer being saved, which could be used
for accessing arguments on the stack, as well as having the function graph
tracer not require its own trampoline!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 6aa36ec73ccb..c9b64dea1216 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
 	bool
 
+config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
+	bool
+	help
+	 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
+	 the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
+	 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
+	 This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and
+	 kernel_stack_pointer().
+
 config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
 	bool
 	help