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/sched.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 295b7c7..df77abe 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2005,6 +2005,17 @@ static inline void setup_thread_stack(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct { *task_thread_info(p) = *task_thread_info(org); task_thread_info(p)->task = p; + +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER + /* + * When fork() creates a child process, this function is called. + * But the child task may not inherit the return adresses traced + * by the return function tracer because it will directly execute + * in userspace and will not return to kernel functions its parent + * used. + */ + task_thread_info(p)->curr_ret_stack = -1; +#endif } static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(struct task_struct *p) -- cgit v1.1