arm64: Add ftrace support

This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers,
such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER).

With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with
timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is
specified, call graph is generated.

The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted
at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's
entry as long as tracing is enabled.
In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's
exit. ftrace_graph_caller() & return_to_handler do this by faking link
register's value to intercept function's return path.

More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.

Reviewed-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
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+/*
+ * arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Linaro Limited
+ * Author: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_FTRACE_H
+#define __ASM_FTRACE_H
+
+#include <asm/insn.h>
+
+#define MCOUNT_ADDR             ((unsigned long)_mcount)
+#define MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE        AARCH64_INSN_SIZE
+
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+extern void _mcount(unsigned long);
+#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
+
+#endif /* __ASM_FTRACE_H */