Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2019 09:21:15 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix printing ptrs in preempt/irq enable/disable events |
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Joel,
Any comments on this patch?
-- Steve
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:44:28 +0100 Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@st.com> wrote:
> This tracing event class is the only instance in kernel that logs > in the trace buffer the instruction pointer as offset to _stext, > instead of logging the full pointer. > This looks like a nice optimization for 64 bits platforms, where a > 32 bit offset can take less space than a full 64 bits pointer. But > the symbol _stext is incorrectly resolved as zero in the expansion > of TP_printk(), which then prints only the hex offset instead of > the name of the caller function. Plus, on arm arch the kernel > modules are loaded at address lower than _stext, causing the u32 > offset arithmetics to overflow and wrap at 32 bits. > I did not identified a 64 bit arch where the modules are loaded at > offset from _stext that exceed u32 range, but I also did not > identified any constraint to feel safe with a u32 offset. > > Log directly the instruction pointer instead of the offset to > _stext. > > Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@st.com> > Fixes: d59158162e03 ("tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events") > --- > include/trace/events/preemptirq.h | 12 ++++++------ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/trace/events/preemptirq.h b/include/trace/events/preemptirq.h > index 95fba0471e5b..d548a6aafa18 100644 > --- a/include/trace/events/preemptirq.h > +++ b/include/trace/events/preemptirq.h > @@ -18,18 +18,18 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(preemptirq_template, > TP_ARGS(ip, parent_ip), > > TP_STRUCT__entry( > - __field(u32, caller_offs) > - __field(u32, parent_offs) > + __field(unsigned long, caller_ip) > + __field(unsigned long, parent_ip) > ), > > TP_fast_assign( > - __entry->caller_offs = (u32)(ip - (unsigned long)_stext); > - __entry->parent_offs = (u32)(parent_ip - (unsigned long)_stext); > + __entry->caller_ip = ip; > + __entry->parent_ip = parent_ip; > ), > > TP_printk("caller=%pS parent=%pS", > - (void *)((unsigned long)(_stext) + __entry->caller_offs), > - (void *)((unsigned long)(_stext) + __entry->parent_offs)) > + (void *)__entry->caller_ip, > + (void *)__entry->parent_ip) > ); > > #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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