linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/cleanups] x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info when frame pointer is available

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:46:07 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	tglx@...utronix.de, namhyung@...il.com, ssp@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/cleanups] x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info
 when frame pointer is available

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:24:53PM +0000, tip-bot for Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Commit-ID:  074206a787e4dfdc4c290789ab6604c7f9e691ca
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/074206a787e4dfdc4c290789ab6604c7f9e691ca
> Author:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:44:19 +0900
> Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> CommitDate: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:20:30 +0100
> 
> x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info when frame pointer is available
> 
> Current stack dump code scans entire stack and checks each entry for 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
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
> Cc: Soren Sandmann <ssp@...hat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> LKML-Reference: <1299584662-24421-1-git-send-email-namhyung@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> ---

Nice fix, thanks!
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