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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ftrace: use kretprobe trampoline name to test in output

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> [
> Ingo,
>
> Can you get this ready for 2.6.28. Without this fix, tracing
> breaks the ia64 build.
> ]
>
> When a function is kprobed, the return address is set to the
> kprobe_trampoline, or something similar. This caused the output
> of the trace to look confusing when the parent seemed to be this
> "kprobe_trampoline" function.
>
> To fix this, Abhishek Sagar added a test of the instruction pointer
> of the parent to see if it matched the kprobe_trampoline. If it
> did, the output would print a "[unknown/kretprobe'd]" instead.
>
> Unfortunately, not all archs do this the same way, and the trampoline
> function may not be exported, which causes failures in builds.
>
> This patch will compare the name instead of the pointer to see
> if it matches. This prevents us from depending on a function from
> being exported, and should work on all archs. The worst that can
> happen is that an arch might use a different name and then we
> go back to the confusing output. At least the arch will still build.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

applied to tip/tracing/urgent, thanks!

Ingo


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