Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: Detect FTRACE cases that make the stack trace unreliable

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Apr 08 2021 - 12:58:46 EST


On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 03:43:12PM -0500, madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is enabled and tracing is activated
> for a function, the ftrace infrastructure is called for the function at
> the very beginning. Ftrace creates two frames:

This looks good to me however I'd really like someone who has a firmer
understanding of what ftrace is doing to double check as it is entirely
likely that I am missing cases here, it seems likely that if I am
missing stuff it's extra stuff that needs to be added and we're not
actually making use of the reliability information yet.

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