[PATCH v3 3/7] arm64: ftrace: fix a stack tracer's output under function graph tracer

Jungseok Lee jungseoklee85 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 08:24:24 PDT 2015


On Oct 8, 2015, at 7:01 PM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:

Hi Akashi,

> Function graph tracer modifies a return address (LR) in a stack frame
> to hook a function return. This will result in many useless entries
> (return_to_handler) showing up in a stack tracer's output.
> 
> This patch replaces such entries with originals values preserved in
> current->ret_stack[].
> 
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>

The following diff should be folded into this patch, not [7/7] one, to
address build breakage.

----8<----
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 407991b..7126d4d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/ftrace.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/stacktrace.h>
----8<----

Best Regards
Jungseok Lee



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