tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing

Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing

Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.

This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.

The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.

Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.

For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
index f8173ed1c970d..9b6a1fa19e700 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -20,4 +20,30 @@ static inline unsigned long ftrace_call_adjust(unsigned long addr)
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
+#define FTRACE_RET_STACK_SIZE 20
+
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+
+/*
+ * Stack of return addresses for functions
+ * of a thread.
+ * Used in struct thread_info
+ */
+struct ftrace_ret_stack {
+	unsigned long ret;
+	unsigned long func;
+	unsigned long long calltime;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Primary handler of a function return.
+ * It relays on ftrace_return_to_handler.
+ * Defined in entry32.S
+ */
+extern void return_to_handler(void);
+
+#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
+#endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER */
+
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_FTRACE_H */