From caf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:03:45 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/ftrace.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/ftrace.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index 1f5608c..dcbbf72 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -268,6 +268,26 @@ ftrace_init_module(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end) { } /* + * Structure that defines a return function trace. + */ +struct ftrace_retfunc { + unsigned long ret; /* Return address */ + unsigned long func; /* Current function */ + unsigned long long calltime; + unsigned long long rettime; +}; + +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER +/* Type of a callback handler of tracing return function */ +typedef void (*trace_function_return_t)(struct ftrace_retfunc *); + +extern void register_ftrace_return(trace_function_return_t func); +/* The current handler in use */ +extern trace_function_return_t ftrace_function_return; +extern void unregister_ftrace_return(void); +#endif + +/* * Structure which defines the trace of an initcall. * You don't have to fill the func field since it is * only used internally by the tracer. -- cgit v1.1