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449a66fd1fa75d36dca917704827c40c8f416bca 12-May-2011 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> x86: Remove warning and warning_symbol from struct stacktrace_ops

Both warning and warning_symbol are nowhere used.
Let's get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305205872-10321-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
e8e999cf3cc733482e390b02ff25a64cecdc0b64 18-Mar-2011 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info when frame pointer is available

Current stack dump code scans entire stack and check each entry
contains a pointer to kernel code. If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y it
could mark whether the pointer is valid or not based on value of
the frame pointer. Invalid entries could be preceded by '?' sign.

However this was not going to happen because scan start point
was always higher than the frame pointer so that they could not
meet.

Commit 9c0729dc8062 ("x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack
tracing routines") delayed bp acquisition point, so the bp was
read in lower frame, thus all of the entries were marked
invalid.

This patch fixes this by reverting above commit while retaining
stack_frame() helper as suggested by Frederic Weisbecker.

End result looks like below:

before:

[ 3.508329] Call Trace:
[ 3.508551] [<ffffffff814f35c9>] ? panic+0x91/0x199
[ 3.508662] [<ffffffff814f3739>] ? printk+0x68/0x6a
[ 3.508770] [<ffffffff81a981b2>] ? mount_block_root+0x257/0x26e
[ 3.508876] [<ffffffff81a9821f>] ? mount_root+0x56/0x5a
[ 3.508975] [<ffffffff81a98393>] ? prepare_namespace+0x170/0x1a9
[ 3.509216] [<ffffffff81a9772b>] ? kernel_init+0x1d2/0x1e2
[ 3.509335] [<ffffffff81003894>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 3.509442] [<ffffffff814f6880>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[ 3.509542] [<ffffffff81a97559>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1e2
[ 3.509641] [<ffffffff81003890>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10

after:

[ 3.522991] Call Trace:
[ 3.523351] [<ffffffff814f35b9>] panic+0x91/0x199
[ 3.523468] [<ffffffff814f3729>] ? printk+0x68/0x6a
[ 3.523576] [<ffffffff81a981b2>] mount_block_root+0x257/0x26e
[ 3.523681] [<ffffffff81a9821f>] mount_root+0x56/0x5a
[ 3.523780] [<ffffffff81a98393>] prepare_namespace+0x170/0x1a9
[ 3.523885] [<ffffffff81a9772b>] kernel_init+0x1d2/0x1e2
[ 3.523987] [<ffffffff81003894>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 3.524228] [<ffffffff814f6880>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[ 3.524345] [<ffffffff81a97559>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1e2
[ 3.524445] [<ffffffff81003890>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10

-v5:
* fix build breakage with oprofile

-v4:
* use 0 instead of regs->bp
* separate out printk changes

-v3:
* apply comment from Frederic
* add a couple of printk fixes

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Soren Sandmann <ssp@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1300416006-3163-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
9c0729dc8062bed96189bd14ac6d4920f3958743 05-Nov-2010 Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routines

The various stack tracing routines take a 'bp' argument in which the
caller is supposed to provide the base pointer to use, or 0 if doesn't
have one. Since bp is garbage whenever CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not
defined, this means all callers in principle should either always pass
0, or be conditional on CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.

However, there are only really three use cases for stack tracing:

(a) Trace the current task, including IRQ stack if any
(b) Trace the current task, but skip IRQ stack
(c) Trace some other task

In all cases, if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not defined, bp should just
be 0. If it _is_ defined, then

- in case (a) bp should be gotten directly from the CPU's register, so
the caller should pass NULL for regs,

- in case (b) the caller should should pass the IRQ registers to
dump_trace(),

- in case (c) bp should be gotten from the top of the task's stack, so
the caller should pass NULL for regs.

Hence, the bp argument is not necessary because the combination of
task and regs is sufficient to determine an appropriate value for bp.

This patch introduces a new inline function stack_frame(task, regs)
that computes the desired bp. This function is then called from the
two versions of dump_stack().

Signed-off-by: Soren Sandmann <ssp@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
LKML-Reference: <m3oc9rop28.fsf@dhcp-100-3-82.bos.redhat.com>>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
b0f82b81fe6bbcf78d478071f33e44554726bc81 20-May-2010 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> perf: Drop the skip argument from perf_arch_fetch_regs_caller

Drop this argument now that we always want to rewind only to the
state of the first caller.
It means frame pointers are not necessary anymore to reliably get
the source of an event. But this also means we need this helper
to be a macro now, as an inline function is not an option since
we need to know when to provide a default implentation.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
c9cf4dbb4d9ca715d8fedf13301a53296429abc6 19-May-2010 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> x86: Unify dumpstack.h and stacktrace.h

arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h and arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h
declare headers of objects that deal with the same topic.
Actually most of the files that include stacktrace.h also include
dumpstack.h

Although dumpstack.h seems more reserved for internals of stack
traces, those are quite often needed to define specialized stack
trace operations. And perf event arch headers are going to need
access to such low level operations anyway. So don't continue to
bother with dumpstack.h as it's not anymore about isolated deep
internals.

v2: fix struct stack_frame definition conflict in sysprof

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
0fb8ee48d9dfff6a0913ceb0be2068d8be203763 31-Dec-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> perf: Drop useless check for ignored frame

The check that ignores the debug and nmi stack frames is useless
now that we have a frame pointer that makes us start at the
right place. We don't anymore have to deal with these.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262235183-5320-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
06d65bda75341485d32f33da474b0664819ad497 17-Dec-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> 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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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 <mingo@elte.hu>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
61c1917f47f73c968e92d04d15370b1dc3ec4592 17-Dec-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> 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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
0406ca6d8e849d9dd027c8cb6791448e81411aef 01-Jul-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces

About every callchains recorded with perf record are filled up
including the internal perfcounter nmi frame:

perf_callchain
perf_counter_overflow
intel_pmu_handle_irq
perf_counter_nmi_handler
notifier_call_chain
atomic_notifier_call_chain
notify_die
do_nmi
nmi

We want ignore this frame as it's not interesting for
instrumentation. To solve this, we simply ignore every frames
from nmi context.

New example of "perf report -s sym -c" after this patch:

9.59% [k] search_by_key
4.88%
search_by_key
reiserfs_read_locked_inode
reiserfs_iget
reiserfs_lookup
do_lookup
__link_path_walk
path_walk
do_path_lookup
user_path_at
vfs_fstatat
vfs_lstat
sys_newlstat
system_call_fastpath
__lxstat
0x406fb1

3.19%
search_by_key
search_by_entry_key
reiserfs_find_entry
reiserfs_lookup
do_lookup
__link_path_walk
path_walk
do_path_lookup
user_path_at
vfs_fstatat
vfs_lstat
sys_newlstat
system_call_fastpath
__lxstat
0x406fb1
[...]

For now this patch only solves the problem in x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
1965aae3c98397aad957412413c07e97b1bd4e64 23-Oct-2008 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards

Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:

a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
bb8985586b7a906e116db835c64773b7a7d51663 18-Aug-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h