From 61c1917f47f73c968e92d04d15370b1dc3ec4592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:40:33 +0100 Subject: perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional 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 Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c index 0a0aa1cec8f1..8aaa119b7cad 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c @@ -141,10 +141,11 @@ static void print_trace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr, int reliable) } static const struct stacktrace_ops print_trace_ops = { - .warning = print_trace_warning, - .warning_symbol = print_trace_warning_symbol, - .stack = print_trace_stack, - .address = print_trace_address, + .warning = print_trace_warning, + .warning_symbol = print_trace_warning_symbol, + .stack = print_trace_stack, + .address = print_trace_address, + .walk_stack = print_context_stack, }; void -- cgit v1.2.2 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/kernel/dumpstack.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c index 8aaa119b7cad..c56bc2873030 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c @@ -109,6 +109,30 @@ print_context_stack(struct thread_info *tinfo, } return bp; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(print_context_stack); + +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) +{ + struct stack_frame *frame = (struct stack_frame *)bp; + unsigned long *ret_addr = &frame->return_address; + + while (valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, ret_addr, sizeof(*ret_addr), end)) { + unsigned long addr = *ret_addr; + + if (__kernel_text_address(addr)) { + ops->address(data, addr, 1); + frame = frame->next_frame; + ret_addr = &frame->return_address; + print_ftrace_graph_addr(addr, data, ops, tinfo, graph); + } + } + return (unsigned long)frame; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(print_context_stack_bp); static void @@ -143,8 +167,8 @@ static void print_trace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr, int reliable) static const struct stacktrace_ops print_trace_ops = { .warning = print_trace_warning, .warning_symbol = print_trace_warning_symbol, - .stack = print_trace_stack, - .address = print_trace_address, + .stack = print_trace_stack, + .address = print_trace_address, .walk_stack = print_context_stack, }; -- cgit v1.2.2