tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically

Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely

Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.

So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.

Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork

I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index e90e81ef6ab9..0921b4018c11 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -40,36 +40,8 @@ struct thread_info {
 						*/
 	__u8			supervisor_stack[0];
 #endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
-	/* Index of current stored adress in ret_stack */
-	int		curr_ret_stack;
-	/* Stack of return addresses for return function tracing */
-	struct ftrace_ret_stack	ret_stack[FTRACE_RET_STACK_SIZE];
-	/*
-	 * Number of functions that haven't been traced
-	 * because of depth overrun.
-	 */
-	atomic_t	trace_overrun;
-#endif
 };
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
-#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk)			\
-{						\
-	.task		= &tsk,			\
-	.exec_domain	= &default_exec_domain,	\
-	.flags		= 0,			\
-	.cpu		= 0,			\
-	.preempt_count	= 1,			\
-	.addr_limit	= KERNEL_DS,		\
-	.restart_block = {			\
-		.fn = do_no_restart_syscall,	\
-	},					\
-	.curr_ret_stack = -1,\
-	.trace_overrun	= ATOMIC_INIT(0)	\
-}
-#else
 #define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk)			\
 {						\
 	.task		= &tsk,			\
@@ -82,7 +54,6 @@ struct thread_info {
 		.fn = do_no_restart_syscall,	\
 	},					\
 }
-#endif
 
 #define init_thread_info	(init_thread_union.thread_info)
 #define init_stack		(init_thread_union.stack)