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authorAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>2015-12-15 17:33:39 +0900
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-12-21 17:26:01 +0000
commit79fdee9b6355c9720f14717e1ad66af51bb331b5 (patch)
tree4f446880f2605c53237ae87d31e6bfcda8b41677 /arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c
parentd224a69e3d80fe08f285d1f41d21b590bae4fa9f (diff)
arm64: ftrace: modify a stack frame in a safe way
Function graph tracer modifies a return address (LR) in a stack frame by calling ftrace_prepare_return() in a traced function's function prologue. The current code does this modification before preserving an original address at ftrace_push_return_trace() and there is always a small window of inconsistency when an interrupt occurs. This doesn't matter, as far as an interrupt stack is introduced, because stack tracer won't be invoked in an interrupt context. But it would be better to proactively minimize such a window by moving the LR modification after ftrace_push_return_trace(). Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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