ftrace: riscv: move from REGS to ARGS
This commit replaces riscv's support for FTRACE_WITH_REGS with support
for FTRACE_WITH_ARGS. This is required for the ongoing effort to stop
relying on stop_machine() for RISCV's implementation of ftrace.
The main relevant benefit that this change will bring for the above
use-case is that now we don't have separate ftrace_caller and
ftrace_regs_caller trampolines. This will allow the callsite to call
ftrace_caller by modifying a single instruction. Now the callsite can
do something similar to:
When not tracing: | When tracing:
func: func:
auipc t0, ftrace_caller_top auipc t0, ftrace_caller_top
nop <=========<Enable/Disable>=========> jalr t0, ftrace_caller_bottom
[...] [...]
The above assumes that we are dropping the support of calling a direct
trampoline from the callsite. We need to drop this as the callsite can't
change the target address to call, it can only enable/disable a call to
a preset target (ftrace_caller in the above diagram). We can later optimize
this by calling an intermediate dispatcher trampoline before ftrace_caller.
Currently, ftrace_regs_caller saves all CPU registers in the format of
struct pt_regs and allows the tracer to modify them. We don't need to
save all of the CPU registers because at function entry only a subset of
pt_regs is live:
|----------+----------+---------------------------------------------|
| Register | ABI Name | Description |
|----------+----------+---------------------------------------------|
| x1 | ra | Return address for traced function |
| x2 | sp | Stack pointer |
| x5 | t0 | Return address for ftrace_caller trampoline |
| x8 | s0/fp | Frame pointer |
| x10-11 | a0-1 | Function arguments/return values |
| x12-17 | a2-7 | Function arguments |
|----------+----------+---------------------------------------------|
See RISCV calling convention[1] for the above table.
Saving just the live registers decreases the amount of stack space
required from 288 Bytes to 112 Bytes.
Basic testing was done with this on the VisionFive 2 development board.
Note:
- Moving from REGS to ARGS will mean that RISCV will stop supporting
KPROBES_ON_FTRACE as it requires full pt_regs to be saved.
- KPROBES_ON_FTRACE will be supplanted by FPROBES see [2].
[1] https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/riscv-calling.pdf
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/170887410337.564249.6360118840946697039.stgit@devnote2/Signed-off-by: 
Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Tested-by: 
Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405142453.4187-1-puranjay@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: 
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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