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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ftrace: Add dynamically allocated trampolines
(2014/07/11 6:44), Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>
>> I did some testing with kpatch and I found one minor issue. The dynamically
>> allocated trampoline seems to confuse dump_stack() somewhat.
>>
>> I added a dump_stack() call in my ftrace_ops callback function
>> (kpatch_ftrace_handler) which had a filter on meminfo_proc_show().
>
> Interesting. Are you using dwarf2 unwinder for stack dumping by any
> chance? It seems to get things right here. Will look into it more
> tomorrow.

Hmm, can dwarf2 unwinder work on the trampoline method?
Since the trampoline just a copy of instructions which
will not have CFI(which is stored in dwarf section),
I guess it may not work...
Frame pointer (push bp and save sp to bp on the entry) can
work anyway.

Thank you,

--
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com




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