linux-kernel - Re: Error in save_stack_trace() on x86

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Date:	Sun, 11 May 2008 12:44:30 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Error in save_stack_trace() on x86_64?

Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem with v2.6.26-rc1 on x86_64. It seems that
> save_stack_trace() is not able to follow page fault boundaries, since
> all my saved traces look like this:
> 
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8039b004>]  [<ffffffff8039b004>] add_uevent_var+0xb4/0x160
>     ...
>  [<ffffffff80221f97>] kmemcheck_read+0x127/0x1e0
>  [<ffffffff80222269>] kmemcheck_access+0x179/0x1d0
>  [<ffffffff8022231f>] kmemcheck_fault+0x5f/0x80
>  [<ffffffff8061cd1e>] do_page_fault+0x4de/0x8d0
>  [<ffffffff8061a7d9>] error_exit+0x0/0x51
>  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> 
> I have this in my .config:
> 
> CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
> CONFIG_STACKTRACE=y
> ...
> CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
> ...
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
> 
> 
> On 32-bit, I am able to see the calls leading up to the page fault as
> well. Did I miss something here?

can you give an example?

if a pagefault happens in userspace this trace looks correct.

if it happens in kernel space... I wonder if the separate exception stack thing
is hurting us with the stacks not being properly connected...
(but oopses and the like seem to come out just fine so I kinda doubt you're hitting that)
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