From caf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:03:45 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h index f8173ed1c97..9b6a1fa19e7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h @@ -20,4 +20,30 @@ static inline unsigned long ftrace_call_adjust(unsigned long addr) #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */ +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER +#define FTRACE_RET_STACK_SIZE 20 + +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ + +/* + * Stack of return addresses for functions + * of a thread. + * Used in struct thread_info + */ +struct ftrace_ret_stack { + unsigned long ret; + unsigned long func; + unsigned long long calltime; +}; + +/* + * Primary handler of a function return. + * It relays on ftrace_return_to_handler. + * Defined in entry32.S + */ +extern void return_to_handler(void); + +#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ +#endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER */ + #endif /* _ASM_X86_FTRACE_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3