tracing: add a tracer to catch execution time of kernel functions

Impact: add new tracing plugin which can trace full (entry+exit) function calls

This tracer uses the low level function return ftrace plugin to
measure the execution time of the kernel functions.

The first field is the caller of the function, the second is the
measured function, and the last one is the execution time in
nanoseconds.

- v3:

- HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER have been added. Each arch that support ftrace return
  should enable it.
- ftrace_return_stub becomes ftrace_stub.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER depends now on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
- Return traces printing can be used for other tracers on trace.c
- Adapt to the new tracing API (no more ctrl_update callback)
- Correct the check of "disabled" during insertion.
- Minor changes...

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 4d2e751bfb1..f03fe74ecd6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1484,3 +1484,19 @@ ftrace_enable_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
+trace_function_return_t ftrace_function_return =
+			(trace_function_return_t)ftrace_stub;
+void register_ftrace_return(trace_function_return_t func)
+{
+	ftrace_function_return = func;
+}
+
+void unregister_ftrace_return(void)
+{
+	ftrace_function_return = (trace_function_return_t)ftrace_stub;
+}
+#endif
+
+
+