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ftrace: arm64: move from REGS to ARGS
This commit replaces arm64's support for FTRACE_WITH_REGS with support for FTRACE_WITH_ARGS. This removes some overhead and complexity, and removes some latent issues with inconsistent presentation of struct pt_regs (which can only be reliably saved/restored at exception boundaries). FTRACE_WITH_REGS has been supported on arm64 since commit: 3b23e499 ("arm64: implement ftrace with regs") As noted in the commit message, the major reasons for implementing FTRACE_WITH_REGS were: (1) To make it possible to use the ftrace graph tracer with pointer authentication, where it's necessary to snapshot/manipulate the LR before it is signed by the instrumented function. (2) To make it possible to implement LIVEPATCH in future, where we need to hook function entry before an instrumented function manipulates the stack or argument registers. Practically speaking, we need to preserve the argument/return registers, PC, LR, and SP. Neither of these need a struct pt_regs, and only require the set of registers which are live at function call/return boundaries. Our calling convention is defined by "Procedure Call Standard for the Arm® 64-bit Architecture (AArch64)" (AKA "AAPCS64"), which can currently be found at: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aapcs64/aapcs64.rst Per AAPCS64, all function call argument and return values are held in the following GPRs: * X0 - X7 : parameter / result registers * X8 : indirect result location register * SP : stack pointer (AKA SP) Additionally, ad function call boundaries, the following GPRs hold context/return information: * X29 : frame pointer (AKA FP) * X30 : link register (AKA LR) ... and for ftrace we need to capture the instrumented address: * PC : program counter No other GPRs are relevant, as none of the other arguments hold parameters or return values: * X9 - X17 : temporaries, may be clobbered * X18 : shadow call stack pointer (or temorary) * X19 - X28 : callee saved This patch implements FTRACE_WITH_ARGS for arm64, only saving/restoring the minimal set of registers necessary. This is always sufficient to manipulate control flow (e.g. for live-patching) or to manipulate function arguments and return values. This reduces the necessary stack usage from 336 bytes for pt_regs down to 112 bytes for ftrace_regs + 32 bytes for two frame records, freeing up 188 bytes. This could be reduced further with changes to the unwinder. As there is no longer a need to save different sets of registers for different features, we no longer need distinct `ftrace_caller` and `ftrace_regs_caller` trampolines. This allows the trampoline assembly to be simpler, and simplifies code which previously had to handle the two trampolines. I've tested this with the ftrace selftests, where there are no unexpected failures. Co-developed-by:Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: