[RFC PATCH 1/1] powerpc/ftrace: Exclude real mode code from

[Naveen N. Rao]

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> My earlier assumption was that we have other scenarios when we are in 
>> realmode (specifically with MSR_RI unset) where we won't be able to 
>> recover from a trap, during function tracing (*). I did a set of 
>> experiments yesterday to verify that, but I was not able to uncover 
>> any such scenarios with my brief testing. So, we seem to be 
>> functioning just fine while tracing realmode C code, except for KVM.
> 
> Hmm. If MSR_RI is clear then that should indicate that you can't recover
> from an interrupt, typically because you'd lose state in SRR0/1. So I
> would expect things to go badly in that case.

Yes, so it looks like we aren't calling into any C code (that isn't 
already annotated with 'notrace') with MSR_RI unset. At least, with the 
usual interrupt handling on powernv. I tested this by putting a 'trap' 
in the function tracer callback after the recursion test. This forces a 
trap for each function that we trace non-recursively.

There may be other paths where we do so, but it isn't as pervasive as I 
previously thought. So, we should be able to exclude those paths using 
the paca field, as and when we find them.

- Naveen