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* perf: Fix unsafe frame rewinding with hot regs fetchingFrederic Weisbecker2010-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we fetch the hot regs and rewind to the nth caller, it might happen that we dereference a frame pointer outside the kernel stack boundaries, like in this example: perf_trace_sched_switch+0xd5/0x120 schedule+0x6b5/0x860 retint_careful+0xd/0x21 Since we directly dereference a userspace frame pointer here while rewinding behind retint_careful, this may end up in a crash. Fix this by simply using probe_kernel_address() when we rewind the frame pointer. This issue will have a much more proper fix in the next version of the perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() API that will only need to rewind to the first caller. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
* perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernelsTorok Edwin2010-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When profiling a 32-bit process on a 64-bit kernel, callgraph tracing stopped after the first function, because it has seen a garbage memory address (tried to interpret the frame pointer, and return address as a 64-bit pointer). Fix this by using a struct stack_frame with 32-bit pointers when the TIF_IA32 flag is set. Note that TIF_IA32 flag must be used, and not is_compat_task(), because the latter is only set when the 32-bit process is executing a syscall, which may not always be the case (when tracing page fault events for example). Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1268820436-13145-1-git-send-email-edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshotFrederic Weisbecker2010-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Events that trigger overflows by interrupting a context can use get_irq_regs() or task_pt_regs() to retrieve the state when the event triggered. But this is not the case for some other class of events like trace events as tracepoints are executed in the same context than the code that triggered the event. It means we need a different api to capture the regs there, namely we need a hot snapshot to get the most important informations for perf: the instruction pointer to get the event origin, the frame pointer for the callchain, the code segment for user_mode() tests (we always use __KERNEL_CS as trace events always occur from the kernel) and the eflags for further purposes. v2: rename perf_save_regs to perf_fetch_caller_regs as per Masami's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
* perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optionalFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current print_context_stack helper that does the stack walking job is good for usual stacktraces as it walks through all the stack and reports even addresses that look unreliable, which is nice when we don't have frame pointers for example. But we have users like perf that only require reliable stacktraces, and those may want a more adapted stack walker, so lets make this function a callback in stacktrace_ops that users can tune for their needs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: avoid multiple declaration of kstack_depth_to_printJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup asm/stacktrace.h is more appropriate so removing other 2 declarations. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> LKML-Reference: <1239695308.3033.34.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* ftrace: print real return in dumpstack for function graphSteven Rostedt2008-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: better dumpstack output I noticed in my crash dumps and even in the stack tracer that a lot of functions listed in the stack trace are simply return_to_handler which is ftrace graphs way to insert its own call into the return of a function. But we lose out where the actually function was called from. This patch adds in hooks to the dumpstack mechanism that detects this and finds the real function to print. Both are printed to let the user know that a hook is still in place. This does give a funny side effect in the stack tracer output: Depth Size Location (80 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 4144 48 save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x4d 1) 4096 128 ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b 2) 3968 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18 3) 3952 384 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73 4) 3568 -240 stack_trace_call+0x11d/0x209 5) 3808 144 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73 6) 3664 -128 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe 7) 3792 128 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73 8) 3664 -32 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod] As you can see, the real functions are now negative. This is due to them not being found inside the stack. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: unify appropriate bits from dumpstack_32 and dumpstack_64Neil Horman2008-10-27
Impact: cleanup As promised, now that dumpstack_32 and dumpstack_64 have so many bits in common, we should merge the in-sync bits into a common file, to prevent them from diverging again. This patch removes bits which are common between dumpstack_32.c and dumpstack_64.c and places them in a common dumpstack.c which is built for both 32 and 64 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 319 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h | 39 +++++ arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c | 294 ------------------------------------- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 285 ------------------------------------ 5 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 576 deletions(-)