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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt index dd5f916b351d..a273dd0bbaaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt @@ -203,6 +203,17 @@ along to ftrace_push_return_trace() instead of a stub value of 0. Similarly, when you call ftrace_return_to_handler(), pass it the frame pointer. +HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR +-------------------------------- + +An arch may pass in a pointer to the return address on the stack. This +prevents potential stack unwinding issues where the unwinder gets out of +sync with ret_stack and the wrong addresses are reported by +ftrace_graph_ret_addr(). + +Adding support for it is easy: just define the macro in asm/ftrace.h and +pass the return address pointer as the 'retp' argument to +ftrace_push_return_trace(). HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER --------------------- |