From 06d65bda75341485d32f33da474b0664819ad497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:40:34 +0100 Subject: perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker It's just wasteful for stacktrace users like perf to walk through every entries on the stack whereas these only accept reliable ones, ie: that the frame pointer validates. Since perf requires pure reliable stacktraces, it needs a stack walker based on frame pointers-only to optimize the stacktrace processing. This might solve some near-lockup scenarios that can be triggered by call-graph tracing timer events. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ v2: fix for modular builds and small detail tidyup ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h index 6c75151a3cca..35e89122a42f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ print_context_stack(struct thread_info *tinfo, const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data, unsigned long *end, int *graph); +extern unsigned long +print_context_stack_bp(struct thread_info *tinfo, + unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp, + const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data, + unsigned long *end, int *graph); + /* Generic stack tracer with callbacks */ struct stacktrace_ops { -- cgit v1.2.2