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author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2008-11-11 06:03:45 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-11-11 09:29:11 (GMT) |
commit | caf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a (patch) | |
tree | 6fc234d00faca192248344996a168afb253e5f40 /kernel | |
parent | d844222a54c33a960755b44b934cd1b01b05dceb (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-caf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a.tar.xz |
tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing
Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.
This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.
The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.
Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.
For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/Makefile | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index 9a3ec66..af3be57 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_cgroup-debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched_clock.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe -pg endif +ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER +CFLAGS_REMOVE_extable.o = -pg # For __kernel_text_address() +CFLAGS_REMOVE_module.o = -pg # For __module_text_address() +endif obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o obj-$(CONFIG_PROFILING) += profile.o |