summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/trace
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2020-11-05 21:32:46 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2020-11-06 08:42:26 -0500
commit773c16705058e9be7b0f4ce124e89cd231c120a2 (patch)
tree30bbb7933a0b1bc835d64cd6d61ca8e9b87f8eb7 /Documentation/trace
parenta25d036d939a30623ff73ecad9c8b9116b02e823 (diff)
ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion
This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file "recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a callback to the function tracer was running. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023548.102375687@goodmis.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst
index 86cd14b8e126..5981d5691745 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ can help in this regard. If you start your code with:
int bit;
- bit = ftrace_test_recursion_trylock();
+ bit = ftrace_test_recursion_trylock(ip, parent_ip);
if (bit < 0)
return;
@@ -130,7 +130,9 @@ The code in between will be safe to use, even if it ends up calling a
function that the callback is tracing. Note, on success,
ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() will disable preemption, and the
ftrace_test_recursion_unlock() will enable it again (if it was previously
-enabled).
+enabled). The instruction pointer (ip) and its parent (parent_ip) is passed to
+ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() to record where the recursion happened
+(if CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION is set).
Alternatively, if the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION flag is set on the ftrace_ops
(as explained below), then a helper trampoline will be used to test