linux-toradex.git/include/linux/ftrace.h, branch v3.7

ftrace: Make ftrace_location() a nop on !DYNAMIC_FTRACE

2012-07-31T14:29:57+00:00

When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not set, ftrace_location() is not defined.
If a user (like kprobes) references this function, it will break
the compile when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not set.

Add ftrace_location() as a nop (return 0) when DYNAMIC_FTRACE
is not defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225426.961092717@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: add ftrace_set_filter_ip() for address based filter

2012-07-31T14:29:55+00:00

Add a new filter update interface ftrace_set_filter_ip()
to set ftrace filter by ip address, not only glob pattern.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120605102808.27845.67952.stgit@localhost.localdomain

Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add selftest to test function trace recursion protection

2012-07-31T14:29:54+00:00

Add selftests to test the function tracing recursion protection actually
does work. It also tests if a ftrace_ops states it will perform its own
protection. Although, even if the ftrace_ops states it will protect itself,
the ftrace infrastructure may still provide protection if the arch does
not support all features or another ftrace_ops is registered.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing

2012-07-31T14:29:52+00:00

As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.

If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.

Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace/x86: Add separate function to save regs

2012-07-19T17:20:03+00:00

Add a way to have different functions calling different trampolines.
If a ftrace_ops wants regs saved on the return, then have only the
functions with ops registered to save regs. Functions registered by
other ops would not be affected, unless the functions overlap.

If one ftrace_ops registered functions A, B and C and another ops
registered fucntions to save regs on A, and D, then only functions
A and D would be saving regs. Function B and C would work as normal.
Although A is registered by both ops: normal and saves regs; this is fine
as saving the regs is needed to satisfy one of the ops that calls it
but the regs are ignored by the other ops function.

x86_64 implements the full regs saving, and i386 just passes a NULL
for regs to satisfy the ftrace_ops passing. Where an arch must supply
both regs and ftrace_ops parameters, even if regs is just NULL.

It is OK for an arch to pass NULL regs. All function trace users that
require regs passing must add the flag FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS when
registering the ftrace_ops. If the arch does not support saving regs
then the ftrace_ops will fail to register. The flag
FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS_IF_SUPPORTED may be set that will prevent the
ftrace_ops from failing to register. In this case, the handler may
either check if regs is not NULL or check if ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS.
If the arch supports passing regs it will set this macro and pass regs
for ops that request them. All other archs will just pass NULL.

Link: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120711195745.107705970@goodmis.org

Cc: Alexander van Heukelum 
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Return pt_regs to function trace callback

2012-07-19T17:18:49+00:00

Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.

Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.

If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
 ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Consolidate arch dependent functions with 'list' function

2012-07-19T17:18:22+00:00

As the function tracer starts to get more features, the support for
theses features will spread out throughout the different architectures
over time. These features boil down to what each arch does in the
mcount trampoline (the ftrace_caller).

Currently there's two features that are not the same throughout the
archs.

 1) Support to stop function tracing before the callback
 2) passing of the ftrace ops

Both of these require placing an indirect function to support the
features if the mcount trampoline does not.

On a side note, for all architectures, when more than one callback
is registered to the function tracer, an intermediate 'list' function
is called by the mcount trampoline to iterate through the callbacks
that are registered.

Instead of making a separate function for each of these features,
and requiring several indirect calls, just use the single 'list' function
as the intermediate, to handle all cases. If an arch does not support
the 'stop function tracing' or the passing of ftrace ops, just force
it to use the list function that will handle the features required.

This makes the code cleaner and simpler and removes a lot of
 #ifdefs in the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.495625483@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callback

2012-07-19T17:17:35+00:00

Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace/x86: Have x86 ftrace use the ftrace_modify_all_code()

2012-05-17T00:00:27+00:00

To remove duplicate code, have the ftrace arch_ftrace_update_code()
use the generic ftrace_modify_all_code(). This requires that the
default ftrace_replace_code() becomes a weak function so that an
arch may override it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Make ftrace_modify_all_code() global for archs to use

2012-05-17T00:00:26+00:00

Rename __ftrace_modify_code() to ftrace_modify_all_code() and make
it global for all archs to use. This will remove the duplication
of code, as archs that can modify code without stop_machine()
can use it directly outside of the stop_machine() call.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt