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| author | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2010-01-22 16:12:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2010-01-27 01:00:39 +0300 |
| commit | 03688970347bfea32823953a7ce5886d1713205f (patch) | |
| tree | 7ae2cc539b20b0a621d4a11f335f96de619ecfcb | |
| parent | 6993b1bb1e62367f500789835a1f747e12259f07 (diff) | |
| download | linux-03688970347bfea32823953a7ce5886d1713205f.tar.xz | |
tracing/documentation: Cover new frame pointer semantics
Update the graph tracer examples to cover the new frame pointer semantics
(in terms of passing it along). Move the HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST docs
out of the Kconfig, into the right place, and expand on the details.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264165967-18938-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 4 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt index 239f14b2b55a..6a5a579126b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ function tracer guts ==================== + By Mike Frysinger Introduction ------------ @@ -173,14 +174,16 @@ void ftrace_graph_caller(void) unsigned long *frompc = &...; unsigned long selfpc = <return address> - MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE; - prepare_ftrace_return(frompc, selfpc); + /* passing frame pointer up is optional -- see below */ + prepare_ftrace_return(frompc, selfpc, frame_pointer); /* restore all state needed by the ABI */ } #endif -For information on how to implement prepare_ftrace_return(), simply look at -the x86 version. The only architecture-specific piece in it is the setup of +For information on how to implement prepare_ftrace_return(), simply look at the +x86 version (the frame pointer passing is optional; see the next section for +more information). The only architecture-specific piece in it is the setup of the fault recovery table (the asm(...) code). The rest should be the same across architectures. @@ -205,6 +208,23 @@ void return_to_handler(void) #endif +HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST +--------------------------- + +An arch may pass in a unique value (frame pointer) to both the entering and +exiting of a function. On exit, the value is compared and if it does not +match, then it will panic the kernel. This is largely a sanity check for bad +code generation with gcc. If gcc for your port sanely updates the frame +pointer under different opitmization levels, then ignore this option. + +However, adding support for it isn't terribly difficult. In your assembly code +that calls prepare_ftrace_return(), pass the frame pointer as the 3rd argument. +Then in the C version of that function, do what the x86 port does and pass it +along to ftrace_push_return_trace() instead of a stub value of 0. + +Similarly, when you call ftrace_return_to_handler(), pass it the frame pointer. + + HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER --------------------- diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 6c22d8a2f289..60e2ce0181ee 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST bool help - An arch may pass in a unique value (frame pointer) to both the - entering and exiting of a function. On exit, the value is compared - and if it does not match, then it will panic the kernel. + See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST bool |