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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ftrace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ftrace.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index c86ac786da3d..069f270bd7ae 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -43,9 +43,8 @@ struct dyn_ftrace; char *arch_ftrace_match_adjust(char *str, const char *search); -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL -struct fgraph_ret_regs; -unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(struct fgraph_ret_regs *ret_regs); +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS +unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(struct ftrace_regs *fregs); #else unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(unsigned long frame_pointer); #endif @@ -134,6 +133,13 @@ extern int ftrace_enabled; * Also, architecture dependent fields can be used for internal process. * (e.g. orig_ax on x86_64) * + * Basically, ftrace_regs stores the registers related to the context. + * On function entry, registers for function parameters and hooking the + * function call are stored, and on function exit, registers for function + * return value and frame pointers are stored. + * + * And also, it dpends on the context that which registers are restored + * from the ftrace_regs. * On the function entry, those registers will be restored except for * the stack pointer, so that user can change the function parameters * and instruction pointer (e.g. live patching.) |