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authorJosh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>2016-08-19 06:52:57 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2016-08-24 12:15:14 +0200
commit9a7c348ba6a46f6270d4fe49577649dad5664fe7 (patch)
tree747a399fc9f6f3f1e234e27a164b9bb5e6ac015a /tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
parentdaa460a88c09b26b68e8b017de589c217e901afb (diff)
ftrace: Add return address pointer to ftrace_ret_stack
Storing this value will help prevent unwinders from getting out of sync with the function graph tracer ret_stack. Now instead of needing a stateful iterator, they can compare the return address pointer to find the right ret_stack entry. Note that an array of 50 ftrace_ret_stack structs is allocated for every task. So when an arch implements this, it will add either 200 or 400 bytes of memory usage per task (depending on whether it's a 32-bit or 64-bit platform). Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Byungchul Park <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a95cfcc39e8f26b89a430c56926af0bb217bc0a1.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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