lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Jul]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC 2/3] arm64: refactor save_stack_trace()
Steve,

On 07/15/2015 11:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:20:42 +0900
> AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> On 07/14/2015 10:31 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:47:10 +0900
>>> Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is the below example an unexpected result?
>>>> Entry 17 and 18 are ftrace_call and ftrace_ops_no_ops, respectively.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Note, function tracing does not disable interrupts. This looks to be
>>> that an interrupt came in while __aloc_skb() was being traced.
>>
>> Yeah, I think so, too. But if my insight is correct, it's not __alloc_skb()
>> but one of functions that it calls. As I said in the commit log message
>> of patch[1/3], the exact traced function will not be listed by

not patch[1/3], but patch[3/3]

>> save_stack_trace() because we don't create a stack frame at mcount().
>> I think this is a flaw in the current implementation (on x86).
>>
>> what do you think, Steve?
>>
>
> mcount (well ftrace_call actually) does indeed create a stack frame for
> itself *and* for what called it. At least on x86_64. See mcount_64.S.
>
> With -pg -mfentry, it creates a stack frame. Without -mfentry, mcount
> is called after the current function's frame is made so we don't need
> to do much.

Thank you for the explanation. But what I don't really understand here
is why we need to add the "current function" to the stack dump list
returned by save_stack_trace():

In check_stack(),
> /*
> * Add the passed in ip from the function tracer.
> * Searching for this on the stack will skip over
> * most of the overhead from the stack tracer itself.
> */
> stack_dump_trace[0] = ip;
> max_stack_trace.nr_entries++;

I think that "ip" here is the "return address for func" in your
ascii art, and it should be already in the list if a frame is made
by mcount (or func_call).

In fact, stack tracer on arm64 works OK even without the patch[3/3]
if the code quoted above is commented out.
Even on x86, the code is conditional and not activated if the kernel
is compiled without -mfentry before the following commit:
commit 4df297129f62 ("tracing: Remove most or all of stack tracer stack size from stack_max_size")

So what do I misunderstand here?

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

> Here's what the -mfentry version does:
>
> pushq %rbp
> pushq 8*2(%rsp) /* this is the parent pointer */
> pushq %rbp
> movq %rsp, %rbp
> pushq 8*3(%rsp) /* Return address to ftrace_call */
> pushq %rbp
> movq %rsp, %rbp
>
>
> Thus the stack looks like this:
>
> <---+
> | | |
> +------------------------------+ |
> | return address for func | |
> | return address for func_call | |
> | original %rbp | |
> +------------------------------+ |
> | return address for func | |
> | ptr to parent frame (%rbp) | ----+
> +------------------------------| <-----+
> | return address for func_call | |
> | ptr to next frame (%rbp) | ------+
> +------------------------------+ <---+
> |
> |
> Current %rbp points to func_call frame -----+
>
> The first box isn't used as a frame, but is used by ftrace_call to save
> information to restore everything properly.
>
> Thus, __alloc_skb() is what is currently being traced.
>
>
> -- Steve
>


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-07-15 14:01    [W:0.139 / U:0.080 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site