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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2008-11-11 07:03:45 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-11 10:29:11 +0100
commitcaf4b323b02a16c92fba449952ac6515ddc76d7a (patch)
tree6fc234d00faca192248344996a168afb253e5f40 /arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
parentd844222a54c33a960755b44b934cd1b01b05dceb (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/Makefile')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/Makefile6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index e489ff9cb3e..1d8ed95da84 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_paravirt-spinlocks.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o = -pg
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
+# Don't trace __switch_to() but let it for function tracer
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_process_32.o = -pg
+endif
+
#
# vsyscalls (which work on the user stack) should have
# no stack-protector checks:
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) += apic.o nmi.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC) += io_apic.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS) += reboot_fixups_32.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) += ftrace.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER) += ftrace.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC) += machine_kexec_$(BITS).o
obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC) += relocate_kernel_$(BITS).o crash.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) += crash_dump_$(BITS).o