Re: [PATCH] ftrace: distinguish kretprobe'd functions in trace logs

From: Abhishek Sagar
Date: Fri Oct 31 2008 - 11:32:53 EST


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Abhishek,
>>
>> Now that this code is in mainline, it has become apparent that
>> kretprobe_trampoline is not defined on all archs as a global like it is in
>> x86. This needs to be fixed (it breaks ia64 build).
>>
>
> Also note that kretprobe_trampoline will not be the return address.
>
> Hmm, I think I can solve this by not even doing the test here, but simply
> on the name itself.

Ok. I wonder if it would be a good idea to export kretprobe_trampoline
(or kretprobe_trampoline->ip) via asm/kprobes.h for all archs, for the
kind of checks done here for ftrace (to have them elsewhere too like
in OOPs generation etc).

Adding Kprobe folks in CC

-- Abhishek
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