linux/include
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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acpi Merge branch 'linus' into test 2008-10-23 00:11:07 -04:00
asm-arm
asm-frv ide: fix support for IDE PCI controllers using MMIO on frv 2008-10-17 18:09:14 +02:00
asm-generic Fix __pfn_to_page(pfn) for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y 2008-11-08 10:02:48 -08:00
asm-h8300 h8300: update timer handler - new files 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-m68k proc: move /proc/hardware to m68k-specific code 2008-10-23 14:24:03 +04:00
asm-mn10300 [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-x86 x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps 2008-10-31 10:12:38 +01:00
asm-xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6 2008-10-23 09:16:56 -07:00
crypto
drm i915: Add GEM ioctl to get available aperture size. 2008-11-03 10:56:49 +10:00
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linux tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing 2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
math-emu math-emu: Fix thinko in _FP_DIV 2008-10-22 22:09:59 -07:00
media V4L/DVB (9335): videobuf: split unregister bus creating self-contained frontend de-allocator 2008-10-21 14:32:08 -02:00
mtd
net net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector 2008-11-09 11:17:33 -08:00
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rdma
rxrpc
scsi scsi: make sure that scsi_init_shared_tag_map() doesn't overwrite existing map 2008-10-27 19:25:30 +01:00
sound Merge branches 'topic/fix/misc' and 'topic/fix/hda' into for-linus 2008-11-10 17:58:46 +01:00
trace sched: clean up tracepoints 2008-10-14 10:33:14 +02:00
video video: add sh_mobile_lcdc platform flags 2008-10-20 11:38:50 +09:00
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