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, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
index 2bb43b433e076..754a3e082f94b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ struct dyn_arch_ftrace {
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
-#define FTRACE_RET_STACK_SIZE 20
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__