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/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 27b8a3a39911..ca91e50bdb10 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config 64BIT config X86_32 def_bool !64BIT + select HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER config X86_64 def_bool 64BIT -- cgit v1.2.3 From f1c4be5edad3756212cbbbeab39428fe90c27109 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:22:36 +0100 Subject: tracing, x86: clean up FUNCTION_RET_TRACER Kconfig Impact: cleanup move FUNCTION_RET_TRACER to the X86 select section, where we have all the other options. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index ca91e50bdb10..0de793cf2144 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ config 64BIT config X86_32 def_bool !64BIT - select HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER config X86_64 def_bool 64BIT @@ -30,6 +29,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER + select HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER if X86_32 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64) select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER -- cgit v1.2.3