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Frederic Weisbecker caf4b323b0 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>
2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2008-11-06 18:07:03 +00:00
avr32 Merge branches 'boards' and 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2008-10-23 15:24:10 +02:00
blackfin container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
cris [CRIS] Remove links from CRIS build 2008-10-31 23:37:57 +01:00
frv container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-23 08:20:34 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP 2008-11-07 09:51:55 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile 2008-10-23 10:05:40 -07:00
m68k proc: move /proc/stram to m68k-specific code 2008-10-23 14:25:35 +04:00
m68knommu container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
mips CHAR: Delete old and now unused M48T35 RTC driver for SGI IP27. 2008-10-30 14:44:35 +00:00
mn10300 mn10300: use bcd2bin/bin2bcd 2008-10-20 08:52:41 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Fix "unused variable" warning in pci_dlpar.c 2008-11-05 19:59:08 +11:00
s390 [S390] s390: Fix build for !CONFIG_S390_GUEST + CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE 2008-10-28 11:12:06 +01:00
sh ftrace: fix hardirq header for non ftrace archs 2008-11-03 11:03:43 +01:00
sparc ftrace: fix hardirq header for non ftrace archs 2008-11-03 11:03:43 +01:00
sparc64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-11-02 10:16:44 -08:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev 2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
x86 tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing 2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6 2008-10-23 09:16:56 -07:00
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