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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2008-11-11 01:03:45 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-11 04:29:11 -0500
commitcaf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a (patch)
tree6fc234d00faca192248344996a168afb253e5f40 /include/linux/ftrace_irq.h
parentd844222a54c33a960755b44b934cd1b01b05dceb (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ftrace_irq.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ftrace_irq.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h b/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h
index b1299d6729f..0b4df55d7a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
2#define _LINUX_FTRACE_IRQ_H 2#define _LINUX_FTRACE_IRQ_H
3 3
4 4
5#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 5#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER)
6extern void ftrace_nmi_enter(void); 6extern void ftrace_nmi_enter(void);
7extern void ftrace_nmi_exit(void); 7extern void ftrace_nmi_exit(void);
8#else 8#else