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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 9a3ec66a9d84..af3be57acbbb 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