ftrace: Add return address pointer to ftrace_ret_stack
Storing this value will help prevent unwinders from getting out of sync
with the function graph tracer ret_stack. Now instead of needing a
stateful iterator, they can compare the return address pointer to find
the right ret_stack entry.
Note that an array of 50 ftrace_ret_stack structs is allocated for every
task. So when an arch implements this, it will add either 200 or 400
bytes of memory usage per task (depending on whether it's a 32-bit or
64-bit platform).
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a95cfcc39e8f26b89a430c56926af0bb217bc0a1.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
index dd5f916..a273dd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
@@ -203,6 +203,17 @@
Similarly, when you call ftrace_return_to_handler(), pass it the frame pointer.
+HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
+--------------------------------
+
+An arch may pass in a pointer to the return address on the stack. This
+prevents potential stack unwinding issues where the unwinder gets out of
+sync with ret_stack and the wrong addresses are reported by
+ftrace_graph_ret_addr().
+
+Adding support for it is easy: just define the macro in asm/ftrace.h and
+pass the return address pointer as the 'retp' argument to
+ftrace_push_return_trace().
HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
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