As Colin Cross ported my x86 change to ARM, he also pointed out that
powerpc is also behind in this fix.

The commit 722b3c746953 "ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before
updating index" fixes an issue with function graph tracing for x86,
where if the called entry function decides not to trace interrupts, it
can fail the check if an interrupt comes in just after the
curr_ret_stack is updated.

The solution is to call the entry function first, then update the
curr_ret_stack if the entry function wants to be traced.

Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12
instead of r11 with newer gcc's.

Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld <blofeldus@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org

The patch_instruction() interface is made to modify kernel text. It is
safer to use that then the probe_kernel_write() when modifying kernel
code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

PowerPC does not have the synchronization issues that x86 has with
modifying code on one CPU while another CPU is executing it.
The other CPU will either see the old or new code without any
issues, unlike x86 which may issue a GPF.

Instead of calling the heavy stop_machine, just update the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This patch implements the raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC and exports
them for ftrace syscalls to use.

To minimise reworking existing code, I slightly re-ordered the thread
info flags such that the new TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT bit would still fit
within the 16 bits of the andi. instruction's UI field. The instructions
in question are in /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_{32,64}.S to and the
_TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A with the thread flags to see if system call tracing
is enabled.

In the case of 64bit PowerPC, arch_syscall_addr and
arch_syscall_match_sym_name are overridden to allow ftrace syscalls to
work given the unusual system call table structure and symbol names that
start with a period.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
  tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance
  tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_up
  function-graph: add stack frame test
  function-graph: disable when both x86_32 and optimize for size are configured
  ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer
  ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmi
  ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_empty
  ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocation
  ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page size
  ring-buffer: remove useless warn on check
  ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating index
  tracing: update sample event documentation
  tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unload
  tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds()
  ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accounting
  ring-buffer: remove unused variable
  ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events
  ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area
  tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned short
  tracing/filters: operand can be negative
  ...

Fix up kmemcheck-induced conflict in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c manually

In case gcc does something funny with the stack frames, or the return
from function code, we would like to detect that.

An arch may implement passing of a variable that is unique to the
function and can be saved on entering a function and can be tested
when exiting the function. Usually the frame pointer can be used for
this purpose.

This patch also implements this for x86. Where it passes in the stack
frame of the parent function, and will test that frame on exit.

There was a case in x86_32 with optimize for size (-Os) where, for a
few functions, gcc would align the stack frame and place a copy of the
return address into it. The function graph tracer modified the copy and
not the actual return address. On return from the funtion, it did not go
to the tracer hook, but returned to the parent. This broke the function
graph tracer, because the return of the parent (where gcc did not do
this funky manipulation) returned to the location that the child function
was suppose to. This caused strange kernel crashes.

This test detected the problem and pointed out where the issue was.

This modifies the parameters of one of the functions that the arch
specific code calls, so it includes changes to arch code to accommodate
the new prototype.

Note, I notice that the parsic arch implements its own push_return_trace.
This is now a generic function and the ftrace_push_return_trace should be
used instead. This patch does not touch that code.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

There's no need to wrap PPC_INST_NOP in a static inline.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

These macros were used in the original port, but since commit
e4486fe316 (ftrace, use probe_kernel API to modify code) they
are unused.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Use ppc_function_entry() from code-patching.h.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>