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 ++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/ftrace_irq.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 11 +++++++++++ 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') 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. diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h b/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h index b1299d6..0b4df55 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace_irq.h @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #define _LINUX_FTRACE_IRQ_H -#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE +#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER) extern void ftrace_nmi_enter(void); extern void ftrace_nmi_exit(void); #else 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