On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 12:49:12PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:

When reworking core ftrace code or architectural ftrace code, it's often
necessary to test/analyse/benchmark a number of ftrace_ops
configurations. This patch adds a module which can be used to explore
some of those configurations.

I'm using this to benchmark various options for changing the way
trampolines and handling of ftrace_ops work on arm64, and ensuring other
architectures aren't adversely affected.

For example, in a QEMU+KVM VM running on a 2GHz Xeon E5-2660
workstation, loading the module in various configurations produces:

...

...

+static int __init ftrace_ops_sample_init(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags = 0;
+	ktime_t start, end;
+	u64 period;
+

...

+
+	period = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(end, start));
+
+	pr_info("Attempted %u calls to %ps in %lluns (%lluns / call)\n",
+		nr_function_calls, tracee_relevant,
+		period, period / nr_function_calls);

                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Building csky:allmodconfig ... failed
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Error log:
ERROR: modpost: "__udivdi3" [samples/ftrace/ftrace-ops.ko] undefined!

Guenter