[PATCH v6 6/7] arm64: ftrace: Add CALLER_ADDRx macros

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 15:54 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:13:49AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > CALLER_ADDRx returns caller's address at specified level in call stacks.
> > They are used for several tracers like irqsoff and preemptoff.
> > Strange to say, however, they are refered even without FTRACE.
> > 
> > Please note that this implementation assumes that we have frame pointers.
> > (which means kernel should be compiled with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.)
> 
> How do you ensure that -fno-omit-frame-pointer is passed?

Perhaps -pg does the same thing?

> > +#define HAVE_ARCH_CALLER_ADDR
> > +
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR0 ((unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0))
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR1 ((unsigned long)return_address(1))
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR2 ((unsigned long)return_address(2))
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR3 ((unsigned long)return_address(3))
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR4 ((unsigned long)return_address(4))
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR5 ((unsigned long)return_address(5))
> > +#define CALLER_ADDR6 ((unsigned long)return_address(6))
> 
> Could we change the core definitions of these macros (in linux/ftrace.h) to
> use return_address, then provide an overridable version of return_address
> that defaults to __builtin_return_address, instead of copy-pasting this
> sequence?

We could add a new macro:

/* All archs should have this, but we define it for consistency */
#ifndef ftrace_return_address0
# define ftrace_return_address0  __builtin_return_address(0)
#endif
/* Archs may use other ways for ADDR1 and beyond */
#ifndef ftrace_return_address
# define ftrace_return_address(n) __builtin_return_address(n)
#endif

And then have:

#define CALLER_ADDR0 ((unsigned long)ftrace_return_address0)
#define CALLER_ADDR1 ((unsigned long)ftrace_return_address(1))
[...]

And then you would only need to redefine ftrace_return_address.

-- Steve