Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] dynamic_debug: Add support for dynamic register trace

From: [email-masked] (Will Deacon)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:05:24 +0100

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 08:15:27PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> Introduce dynamic debug filtering mechanism to register
> tracing as dynamic_rtb() which will reduce a lot of
> overhead otherwise of tracing all the register reads/writes
> in all files.
> 
> Now we can just specify the file name or any wildcard pattern
> as any other dynamic debug facility in bootargs and dynamic rtb
> will just trace them and the output can be seen in pstore.
> 
> TODO: Now we use same 'p' flag but will add a separate flag for register trace
> later.
> 
> Also add asm-generic/io-instrumented.h file for instrumentation of IO
> operations such as read/write{b,w,l,q} as per Will's suggestion to not touch
> arch code and let core generate instrumentation.
> This can be extended to arm as well later for tracing.
> 
> Example for tracing all register reads/writes in drivers/soc/qcom/* below:
> 
>   # dyndbg="file drivers/soc/qcom/* +p" in bootargs
>   # reboot -f
>   # mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore
>   # cat /sys/fs/pstore/rtb-ramoops-0
>     [LOGK_WRITE] ts:1373030419  data:ffff00000d5065a4  <ffff00000867cb44>  qcom_smsm_probe+0x51c/0x668
>     [LOGK_WRITE] ts:1373360576  data:ffff00000d506608  <ffff00000867cb44>  qcom_smsm_probe+0x51c/0x668
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h           | 26 +++++++++-------------
>  include/asm-generic/io-instrumented.h | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/dynamic_debug.h         | 13 +++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/Kconfig                  |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/io-instrumented.h
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
> index 35b2e50f17fb..aafd4b0be9f0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h

The arm64 bits look fine to me, but please can you split them into a
separate patch?

> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/io-instrumented.h b/include/asm-generic/io-instrumented.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ce273742b98c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/io-instrumented.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +
> +#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_IO_INSTRUMENTED_H
> +#define _ASM_GENERIC_IO_INSTRUMENTED_H
> +
> +#include <linux/dynamic_debug.h>
> +
> +#define __raw_write(v, a, _t) ({			\
> +	volatile void __iomem *_a = (a);		\

Does this actually need to be volatile?

> +	dynamic_rtb("LOGK_WRITE", (void __force *)(_a));\
> +	arch_raw_write##_t((v), _a);			\
> +	})
> +
> +#define __raw_writeb(v, a)	__raw_write((v), a, b)
> +#define __raw_writew(v, a)	__raw_write((v), a, w)
> +#define __raw_writel(v, a)	__raw_write((v), a, l)
> +#define __raw_writeq(v, a)	__raw_write((v), a, q)
> +
> +#define __raw_read(a, _l, _t)    ({					\
> +	_t __a;								\
> +	const volatile void __iomem *_a = (const volatile void __iomem *)(a);\

Again, can't this just be void __iomem * ?

> +	dynamic_rtb("LOGK_READ", (void __force *)(_a));			\
> +	__a = arch_raw_read##_l(_a);					\
> +	__a;								\
> +	})
> +
> +#define __raw_readb(a)	__raw_read((a), b, u8)
> +#define __raw_readw(a)	__raw_read((a), w, u16)
> +#define __raw_readl(a)	__raw_read((a), l, u32)
> +#define __raw_readq(a)	__raw_read((a), q, u64)

I find the way you've defined the __raw_{read,write} macros quite confusing.
They both have an _t parameter, but it's totally unrelated between the two!

Will