linux/arch
Frederic Weisbecker 48d68b20d0 tracing/function-graph-tracer: support for x86-64
Impact: extend and enable the function graph tracer to 64-bit x86

This patch implements the support for function graph tracer under x86-64.
Both static and dynamic tracing are supported.

This causes some small CPP conditional asm on arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c I
wanted to use probe_kernel_read/write to make the return address
saving/patching code more generic but it causes tracing recursion.

That would be perhaps useful to implement a notrace version of these
function for other archs ports.

Note that arch/x86/process_64.c is not traced, as in X86-32. I first
thought __switch_to() was responsible of crashes during tracing because I
believed current task were changed inside but that's actually not the
case (actually yes, but not the "current" pointer).

So I will have to investigate to find the functions that harm here, to
enable tracing of the other functions inside (but there is no issue at
this time, while process_64.c stays out of -pg flags).

A little possible race condition is fixed inside this patch too. When the
tracer allocate a return stack dynamically, the current depth is not
initialized before but after. An interrupt could occur at this time and,
after seeing that the return stack is allocated, the tracer could try to
trace it with a random uninitialized depth. It's a prevention, even if I
hadn't problems with it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
History 2008-12-02 09:47:48 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
arm [ARM] 5330/1: mach-pxa: Fixup reset for systems using reboot=cold or other strings 2008-11-17 14:05:41 +00:00
avr32 Merge branches 'boards' and 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2008-10-23 15:24:10 +02:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: fix a broken define in dma-mapping 2008-11-18 17:48:22 +08:00
cris [CRIS] Remove links from CRIS build 2008-10-31 23:37:57 +01:00
frv container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-23 08:20:34 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] xen: fix xen_get_eflags. 2008-11-20 13:43:01 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile 2008-10-23 10:05:40 -07:00
m68k m68k: Fix off-by-one in m68k_setup_user_interrupt() 2008-11-15 11:36:06 -08:00
m68knommu container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
mips MIPS: csrc-r4k: Fix declaration depending on the wrong CONFIG_ symbol. 2008-11-20 19:42:33 +00:00
mn10300 MN10300: Don't do misalignment handling for userspace 2008-11-12 10:41:18 -08:00
parisc parisc: fix bug in compat_arch_ptrace 2008-11-20 13:09:17 -08:00
powerpc powerpc/ppc32: static ftrace fixes for PPC32 2008-11-28 14:08:07 +01:00
s390 [S390] fix s390x_newuname 2008-11-14 18:18:55 +01:00
sh serial: sh-sci: Reorder the SCxTDR write after the TDxE clear. 2008-11-13 17:46:06 +09:00
sparc sparc64: wire up accept4() 2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
sparc64 sparc64: wire up accept4() 2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev 2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
x86 tracing/function-graph-tracer: support for x86-64 2008-12-02 09:47:48 +01:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6 2008-10-23 09:16:56 -07:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
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