Add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrl [v2]

From: TÃrÃk Edwin
Date: Sun Nov 02 2008 - 16:18:30 EST

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This patch series adds support for userstack tracing to ftrace.
I've tested it on x86_64.

Example usage:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl
echo sched_switch >current_tracer
echo 1 >tracing_enabled
cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace&
.... run application ...
echo 0 >tracing_enabled
cat /tmp/trace

a.out-1623 [000] 40874.465068: /root/a.out[+0x480] <-/root/a.out[+0
+x494] <- /root/a.out[+0x4a8] <- /lib/libc-2.7.so[+0x1e1a6]

If you just want the addresses don't use sym-userobj, but you should resolve the
address to an object before the process exits, otherwise you can't know which
object it belonged to, due to Address Space Layout Randomization (for libraries
at least).

To get meaningful results you'll need your app and
libs compiled with frame-pointers. This usually means rebuilding libc with
frame-pointers (your own app should have frame pointers by default, unless you
used -fomit-frame-pointer).

Another approach would be to use dwarf unwind info that works without frame
pointers (as userspace does it). There was a kernel/unwind.c around 2.6.19, but
it got removed, so I didn't look further at this possibility.

arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++
Documentation/ftrace.txt | 16 ++++
kernel/trace/trace.c | 142 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/trace/trace.h | 10 +++
include/linux/stacktrace.h | 8 ++
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