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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811172020260.26123@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:41:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Large stack usage in fs code (especially for PPC64)
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> >
> > 64 bytes, still much lower than the 160 of PPC64.
>
> The ppc64 ABI has a minimum stack frame of 112 bytes, due to having an
> area for called functions to store their parameters (64 bytes) plus 6
> slots for saving stuff and for the compiler and linker to use if they
> need to. That's before any local variables are allocated.
>
> The ppc32 ABI has a minimum stack frame of 16 bytes, which is much
> nicer, at the expense of a much more complicated va_arg().
Here's a full dump that I got from my 32bit Powerbook:
rostedt@...lum:~$ cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
Depth Size Location (57 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 3196 48 ftrace_call+0x4/0x48
1) 3148 48 update_curr+0xa0/0x110
2) 3100 48 enqueue_task_fair+0x54/0xfc
3) 3052 32 enqueue_task+0x34/0x54
4) 3020 16 activate_task+0x40/0x64
5) 3004 48 try_to_wake_up+0x78/0x164
6) 2956 16 default_wake_function+0x28/0x40
7) 2940 48 __wake_up_common+0x54/0xac
8) 2892 32 __wake_up_sync+0x58/0x94
9) 2860 16 sock_def_readable+0x58/0xb8
10) 2844 32 sock_queue_rcv_skb+0x10c/0x128
11) 2812 32 __udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x2c/0xc4
12) 2780 32 udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x1d8/0x27c
13) 2748 96 __udp4_lib_rcv+0x514/0x77c
14) 2652 16 udp_rcv+0x30/0x48
15) 2636 32 ip_local_deliver_finish+0xf4/0x1cc
16) 2604 16 ip_local_deliver+0x94/0xac
17) 2588 64 ip_rcv_finish+0x2ec/0x31c
18) 2524 32 ip_rcv+0x23c/0x278
19) 2492 48 netif_receive_skb+0x48c/0x4c0
20) 2444 48 process_backlog+0xb0/0x144
21) 2396 48 net_rx_action+0x8c/0x1bc
22) 2348 48 __do_softirq+0x84/0x10c
23) 2300 16 do_softirq+0x50/0x6c
24) 2284 16 local_bh_enable+0x90/0xc8
25) 2268 32 dev_queue_xmit+0x564/0x5b0
26) 2236 48 ip_finish_output+0x2b4/0x2f4
27) 2188 32 ip_output+0xec/0x104
28) 2156 16 ip_local_out+0x44/0x5c
29) 2140 48 ip_push_pending_frames+0x340/0x3ec
30) 2092 48 udp_push_pending_frames+0x2ac/0x348
31) 2044 160 udp_sendmsg+0x458/0x5bc
32) 1884 32 inet_sendmsg+0x70/0x88
33) 1852 240 sock_sendmsg+0xd0/0xf8
34) 1612 32 kernel_sendmsg+0x3c/0x58
35) 1580 96 xs_send_kvec+0xb4/0xcc [sunrpc]
36) 1484 64 xs_sendpages+0x94/0x1f0 [sunrpc]
37) 1420 32 xs_udp_send_request+0x44/0x14c [sunrpc]
38) 1388 32 xprt_transmit+0x100/0x228 [sunrpc]
39) 1356 32 call_transmit+0x234/0x290 [sunrpc]
40) 1324 48 __rpc_execute+0xcc/0x2d4 [sunrpc]
41) 1276 32 rpc_execute+0x48/0x60 [sunrpc]
42) 1244 32 rpc_run_task+0x74/0x90 [sunrpc]
43) 1212 64 rpc_call_sync+0x6c/0xa0 [sunrpc]
44) 1148 80 rpcb_register_call+0xb0/0x110 [sunrpc]
45) 1068 96 rpcb_register+0xe8/0x100 [sunrpc]
46) 972 80 svc_register+0x118/0x168 [sunrpc]
47) 892 64 svc_setup_socket+0xa0/0x354 [sunrpc]
48) 828 272 svc_create_socket+0x1e0/0x250 [sunrpc]
49) 556 16 svc_udp_create+0x38/0x50 [sunrpc]
50) 540 96 svc_create_xprt+0x1c8/0x2fc [sunrpc]
51) 444 48 lockd_up+0xcc/0x27c [lockd]
52) 396 96 write_ports+0xf4/0x2cc [nfsd]
53) 300 32 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x78/0xbc [nfsd]
54) 268 32 vfs_write+0xc8/0x178
55) 236 48 sys_write+0x5c/0xa0
56) 188 188 ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x40
And here's my i386 max stack:
[root@...hel51 ~]# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
Depth Size Location (47 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 2216 240 blk_recount_segments+0x39/0x51
1) 1976 12 bio_phys_segments+0x16/0x1c
2) 1964 20 blk_rq_bio_prep+0x29/0xae
3) 1944 16 init_request_from_bio+0xc9/0xcd
4) 1928 60 __make_request+0x2f6/0x3c1
5) 1868 136 generic_make_request+0x36a/0x3a0
6) 1732 56 submit_bio+0xcd/0xd8
7) 1676 28 submit_bh+0xd1/0xf0
8) 1648 112 block_read_full_page+0x299/0x2a9
9) 1536 8 blkdev_readpage+0x14/0x16
10) 1528 28 read_cache_page_async+0x7e/0x109
11) 1500 16 read_cache_page+0x11/0x49
12) 1484 32 read_dev_sector+0x3c/0x72
13) 1452 48 read_lba+0x4d/0xaa
14) 1404 168 efi_partition+0x85/0x61b
15) 1236 84 rescan_partitions+0x14b/0x316
16) 1152 40 __blkdev_get+0x1b2/0x258
17) 1112 8 blkdev_get+0xf/0x11
18) 1104 36 register_disk+0xbc/0x112
19) 1068 32 add_disk+0x9f/0xf3
20) 1036 48 sd_probe+0x2d4/0x394
21) 988 20 driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
22) 968 8 __device_attach+0xd/0xf
23) 960 28 bus_for_each_drv+0x3e/0x67
24) 932 24 device_attach+0x56/0x6a
25) 908 16 bus_attach_device+0x26/0x4d
26) 892 64 device_add+0x380/0x4aa
27) 828 28 scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0xa1/0x1c9
28) 800 160 scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x97e/0xa8f
29) 640 36 __scsi_add_device+0x88/0xae
30) 604 40 ata_scsi_scan_host+0x8b/0x1cd
31) 564 28 ata_host_register+0x1da/0x1ea
32) 536 24 ata_host_activate+0x98/0xb5
33) 512 188 ahci_init_one+0xa23/0xa4f
34) 324 20 pci_device_probe+0x3e/0x5e
35) 304 20 driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
36) 284 20 __driver_attach+0x51/0x70
37) 264 32 bus_for_each_dev+0x40/0x62
38) 232 12 driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
39) 220 28 bus_add_driver+0x9c/0x1ac
40) 192 28 driver_register+0x76/0xd2
41) 164 20 __pci_register_driver+0x44/0x70
42) 144 8 ahci_init+0x14/0x16
43) 136 92 _stext+0x4f/0x116
44) 44 16 kernel_init+0xf7/0x145
45) 28 28 kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Note, the i386 box had 4KSTACKS defined and the PPC did not have
IRQSTACKS defined. I'll compile with IRQSTACKS defined and post that
result.
-- Steve
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