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 --- kernel/Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index 9a3ec66a9d8..af3be57acbb 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 -- cgit v1.2.3