Messages in this thread | | | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | [RFC 0/5] kernel: backtrace unwind support | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:14 +0100 |
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hi, I was recently dealing with libunwind and wanted to try out the dwarf backtrace unwind in kernel space.
The attached patchset implements dwarf backtrace unwind based on the exception header frames (.eh_frame_hdr and .eh_frame ELF sections). The code is mostly stolen from libunwind (git://git.sv.gnu.org/libunwind.git).
I'm not sure how much of usage this can be given that we already have quite reliable stack backtrace, and given the complexity of the dwarf unwind. But I might be overlooking something and this could be of use for someone else.
Also it needs to be said, that the state of this patchset is far from being done. It's in state 'working for me' on x86_64 and seems to provide reliable backtrace.
attached patches: - 1/5 unwind, kconfig: Adding UNWIND* options - 2/5 unwind, x86: Generate exception frames data for UNWIND_EH_FRAME option - 3/5 unwind, dwarf: Add dwarf unwind support - 4/5 unwind, api: Add unwind interface and implementation for x86_64 - 5/5 unwind, test: Add backtrace unwind test code
The test code could be triggered via unwind_test debugfs file with following output:
# echo > ./unwind_test Testing unwind from process context. unwind backtrace: [0xffffffff810ef759] unw_backtrace+0x29/0x80 [0xffffffff810ef7d4] test_write+0x24/0x90 [0xffffffff81138940] vfs_write+0xd0/0x1a0 [0xffffffff81138b14] sys_write+0x54/0xa0 [0xffffffff814d7352] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Testing a unwind from irq context. unwind backtrace: [0xffffffff810ef759] unw_backtrace+0x29/0x80 [0xffffffff810ef84e] unwind_test_irq_callback+0xe/0x20 [0xffffffff8103d1c3] tasklet_action+0x143/0x150 [0xffffffff8103d9bd] __do_softirq+0xdd/0x250 [0xffffffff8103dc18] run_ksoftirqd+0xe8/0x200 [0xffffffff8105a1b6] kthread+0xc6/0xd0 [0xffffffff814d8564] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
thanks for comments, jirka --- arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 2 + arch/x86/Makefile | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf.h | 89 +++++ arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h | 14 + arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/dwarf.c | 101 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/unwind_init_64.S | 31 ++ arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 + include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 12 + include/linux/dwarf.h | 161 +++++++++ include/linux/unwind.h | 23 ++ kernel/Kconfig.unwind | 26 ++ kernel/Makefile | 6 + kernel/dwarf-cfi.c | 337 ++++++++++++++++++ kernel/dwarf-expression.c | 694 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/dwarf-fde.c | 349 +++++++++++++++++++ kernel/dwarf-read.c | 227 ++++++++++++ kernel/dwarf.c | 7 + kernel/unwind.c | 224 ++++++++++++ 19 files changed, 2317 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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