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>
This commit is contained in:
Frederic Weisbecker
2008-11-23 06:22:56 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a0a70c735e
commit f201ae2356
9 changed files with 137 additions and 58 deletions

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@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <linux/profile.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/acct.h>
@@ -1269,6 +1270,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
total_forks++;
spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
ftrace_retfunc_init_task(p);
#endif
proc_fork_connector(p);
cgroup_post_fork(p);
return p;