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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2008-11-23 00:22:56 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-23 03:17:26 -0500
commitf201ae2356c74bcae130b2177b3dca903ea98071 (patch)
treec4b1b43fbe0a4594cb86749b2e7098fe15eb86ba /kernel/fork.c
parenta0a70c735ef714fe1b6777b571630c3d50c7b008 (diff)
tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses to the stack. So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current only when the tracer is activated. Typical scheme when tracer is activated: - allocate a return stack for each task in global list. - fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task - exit: free return stack of current - idle init: same as fork I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ac62f43ee430..d1eb30e69ccc 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
47#include <linux/mount.h> 47#include <linux/mount.h>
48#include <linux/audit.h> 48#include <linux/audit.h>
49#include <linux/memcontrol.h> 49#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
50#include <linux/ftrace.h>
50#include <linux/profile.h> 51#include <linux/profile.h>
51#include <linux/rmap.h> 52#include <linux/rmap.h>
52#include <linux/acct.h> 53#include <linux/acct.h>
@@ -1269,6 +1270,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1269 total_forks++; 1270 total_forks++;
1270 spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock); 1271 spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
1271 write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); 1272 write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
1273#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
1274 ftrace_retfunc_init_task(p);
1275#endif
1272 proc_fork_connector(p); 1276 proc_fork_connector(p);
1273 cgroup_post_fork(p); 1277 cgroup_post_fork(p);
1274 return p; 1278 return p;