[PATCH 1/3] tracing/function-graph-tracer: add a new .irqentry.textsection

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 17:58:55 EST


Impact: Let the function-graph-tracer aware of the irq entrypoints

Add a new .irqentry.text section to store the irq entrypoints functions
inside the same section. This way, the tracer will be able to signal
an interrupts triggering on output by recognizing these entrypoints.

Also, make this section recordable for dynamic tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 1 +
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 10 ++++++++++
scripts/recordmcount.pl | 1 +
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 46e0544..1a614c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ SECTIONS
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
KPROBES_TEXT
+ IRQENTRY_TEXT
*(.fixup)
*(.gnu.warning)
_etext = .; /* End of text section */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 30536c3..acb72d8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -288,6 +288,16 @@
*(.kprobes.text) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__kprobes_text_end) = .;

+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
+#define IRQENTRY_TEXT \
+ ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__irqentry_text_start) = .; \
+ *(.irqentry.text) \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__irqentry_text_end) = .;
+#else
+#define IRQENTRY_TEXT
+#endif
+
/* Section used for early init (in .S files) */
#define HEAD_TEXT *(.head.text)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index 0b1dc9f..fe83141 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ my %text_sections = (
".text" => 1,
".sched.text" => 1,
".spinlock.text" => 1,
+ ".irqentry.text" => 1,
);

$objdump = "objdump" if ((length $objdump) == 0);
--
1.6.0.4

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