From: Steven Rostedt I've been asked a few times about how to find out what is calling some location in the kernel. One way is to use dynamic function tracing and implement the func_stack_trace. But this only finds out who is calling a particular function. It does not tell you who is calling that function and entering a specific if conditional. I have myself implemented a quick version of trace_dump_stack() for this purpose a few times, and just needed it now. This is when I realized that this would be a good tool to have in the kernel like trace_printk(). Using trace_dump_stack() is similar to dump_stack() except that it writes to the trace buffer instead and can be used in critical locations. For example: @@ -5485,8 +5485,12 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible: if (prev->state && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)) { if (unlikely(signal_pending_state(prev->state, prev))) prev->state = TASK_RUNNING; - else + else { deactivate_task(rq, prev, 1); + trace_printk("Deactivating task %s:%d\n", + prev->comm, prev->pid); + trace_dump_stack(); + } switch_count = &prev->nvcsw; } Produces: <...>-3249 [001] 296.105269: schedule: Deactivating task ntpd:3249 <...>-3249 [001] 296.105270: => schedule => schedule_hrtimeout_range => poll_schedule_timeout => do_select => core_sys_select => sys_select => system_call_fastpath Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 3fa4c59..5ad4199 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -492,6 +492,8 @@ extern int __trace_printk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3))); +extern void trace_dump_stack(void); + /* * The double __builtin_constant_p is because gcc will give us an error * if we try to allocate the static variable to fmt if it is not a diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 88bd9ae..f531301 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1151,6 +1151,22 @@ void __trace_stack(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long flags, int skip, __ftrace_trace_stack(tr->buffer, flags, skip, pc); } +/** + * trace_dump_stack - record a stack back trace in the trace buffer + */ +void trace_dump_stack(void) +{ + unsigned long flags; + + if (tracing_disabled || tracing_selftest_running) + return 0; + + local_save_flags(flags); + + /* skipping 3 traces, seems to get us at the caller of this function */ + __ftrace_trace_stack(global_trace.buffer, flags, 3, preempt_count()); +} + void ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags, int pc) { -- 1.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/