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 --- include/linux/ftrace_irq.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/ftrace_irq.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h b/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h index b1299d6729f2..0b4df55d7a74 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #define _LINUX_FTRACE_IRQ_H -#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE +#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER) extern void ftrace_nmi_enter(void); extern void ftrace_nmi_exit(void); #else -- cgit v1.2.3