linux-stable/Documentation/trace
Masami Hiramatsu f8b8be8a31 ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict
Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY to avoid conflict among
ftrace users who may modify regs->ip to change the execution
path. If two or more users modify the regs->ip on the same
function entry, one of them will be broken. So they must add
IPMODIFY flag and make sure that ftrace_set_filter_ip() succeeds.

Note that ftrace doesn't allow ftrace_ops which has IPMODIFY
flag to have notrace hash, and the ftrace_ops must have a
filter hash (so that the ftrace_ops can hook only specific
entries), because it strongly depends on the address and
must be allowed for only few selected functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141121102516.11844.27829.stgit@localhost.localdomain

Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ fixed up some of the comments ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-11-21 14:42:10 -05:00
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postprocess mm: trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl: report the number of file/anon pages respectively 2014-08-06 18:01:20 -07:00
events-kmem.txt mm-tracepoint: rename page-free events 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
events-nmi.txt x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints 2013-06-23 11:52:58 +02:00
events-power.txt PM / QoS: Rename device resume latency QoS items 2014-02-11 00:35:23 +01:00
events.txt doc: spelling error changes 2014-05-05 15:32:05 +02:00
ftrace-design.txt ftrace: Remove check for HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 2014-07-18 13:57:01 -04:00
ftrace.txt ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict 2014-11-21 14:42:10 -05:00
function-graph-fold.vim tracing: Add vim script to enable folding for function_graph traces 2009-08-26 00:32:04 -04:00
kprobetrace.txt doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace 2012-09-27 12:11:29 +02:00
mmiotrace.txt Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt 2009-12-20 06:18:23 +01:00
ring-buffer-design.txt doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
tracepoint-analysis.txt mm-tracepoint: fix documentation and examples 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
tracepoints.txt tracing: Add trace_<tracepoint>_enabled() function 2014-05-07 12:10:51 -04:00
uprobetracer.txt tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method 2014-01-02 20:57:05 -05:00