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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/include/asm/thread_info.h
parentMerge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core (diff)
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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/include/asm/thread_info.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index e44d379faad2..a71158369fd4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
struct task_struct;
struct exec_domain;
#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/ftrace.h>
struct thread_info {
struct task_struct *task; /* main task structure */
@@ -38,8 +39,30 @@ struct thread_info {
*/
__u8 supervisor_stack[0];
#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
+ /* Index of current stored adress in ret_stack */
+ int curr_ret_stack;
+ /* Stack of return addresses for return function tracing */
+ struct ftrace_ret_stack ret_stack[FTRACE_RET_STACK_SIZE];
+#endif
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
+#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \
+{ \
+ .task = &tsk, \
+ .exec_domain = &default_exec_domain, \
+ .flags = 0, \
+ .cpu = 0, \
+ .preempt_count = 1, \
+ .addr_limit = KERNEL_DS, \
+ .restart_block = { \
+ .fn = do_no_restart_syscall, \
+ }, \
+ .curr_ret_stack = -1,\
+}
+#else
#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \
{ \
.task = &tsk, \
@@ -52,6 +75,7 @@ struct thread_info {
.fn = do_no_restart_syscall, \
}, \
}
+#endif
#define init_thread_info (init_thread_union.thread_info)
#define init_stack (init_thread_union.stack)