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Message-ID: <1293225065.16694.796.camel@pasglop>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:11:05 +1100
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Joerg Sommer <joerg@...a.gnuu.de>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL] powerpc64/tracing: Add frame buffer to calls
of trace_hardirqs_on/off
On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:46 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> ---------------------------
> commit 5025019505da6731f8be13940bb978617599c935
> Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> Date: Thu Dec 23 21:07:39 2010 -0800
>
> powerpc64/tracing: Add frame buffer to calls of trace_hardirqs_on/off
>
> When an interrupt occurs in userspace, we can call trace_hardirqs_on/off()
> With one level stack. But if we have irqsoff tracing enabled,
> it checks both CALLER_ADDR0 and CALLER_ADDR1. The second call
> goes two stack frames up. If this is from user space, then there may
> not exist a second stack.
>
> Add a second stack when calling trace_hardirqs_on/off() otherwise
> the following oops might occur:
Hrm... this is really gross :-) So we add gratuituous overhead because
the code below is dumb :-) What about making the code less stupid
instead when poking at the stack and detect it's coming from userspace
instead ?
Cheers,
Ben.
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> PREEMPT SMP NR_CPUS=2 PA Semi PWRficient
> last sysfs file: /sys/block/sda/size
> Modules linked in: ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore
> NIP: c0000000000e1c00 LR: c0000000000034d4 CTR: 000000011012c440
> REGS: c00000003e2f3af0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.37-rc6+)
> MSR: 9000000000001032 <ME,IR,DR> CR: 48044444 XER: 20000000
> DAR: 00000001ffb9db50, DSISR: 0000000040000000
> TASK = c00000003e1a00a0[2088] 'emacs' THREAD: c00000003e2f0000 CPU: 1
> GPR00: 0000000000000001 c00000003e2f3d70 c00000000084e0d0 c0000000008816e8
> GPR04: 000000001034c678 000000001032e8f9 0000000010336540 0000000040020000
> GPR08: 0000000040020000 00000001ffb9db40 c00000003e2f3e30 0000000060000000
> GPR12: 100000000000f032 c00000000fff0280 000000001032e8c9 0000000000000008
> GPR16: 00000000105be9c0 00000000105be950 00000000105be9b0 00000000105be950
> GPR20: 00000000ffb9dc50 00000000ffb9dbf0 00000000102f0000 00000000102f0000
> GPR24: 00000000102e0000 00000000102f0000 0000000010336540 c0000000009ded38
> GPR28: 00000000102e0000 c0000000000034d4 c0000000007ccb10 c00000003e2f3d70
> NIP [c0000000000e1c00] .trace_hardirqs_off+0xb0/0x1d0
> LR [c0000000000034d4] decrementer_common+0xd4/0x100
> Call Trace:
> [c00000003e2f3d70] [c00000003e2f3e30] 0xc00000003e2f3e30 (unreliable)
> [c00000003e2f3e30] [c0000000000034d4] decrementer_common+0xd4/0x100
> Instruction dump:
> 81690000 7f8b0000 419e0018 f84a0028 60000000 60000000 60000000 e95f0000
> 80030000 e92a0000 eb6301f8 2f800000 <eb890010> 41fe00dc a06d000a eb1e8050
> ---[ end trace 4ec7fd2be9240928 ]---
>
> Reported-by: Joerg Sommer <joerg@...a.gnuu.de>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h
> index b85d8dd..b0b06d8 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h
> @@ -12,24 +12,44 @@
>
> #else
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER
> +/*
> + * Since the ftrace irqsoff latency trace checks CALLER_ADDR1,
> + * which is the stack frame here, we need to force a stack frame
> + * in case we came from user space.
> + */
> +#define TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER(func) \
> + mflr r0; \
> + stdu r1, -32(r1); \
> + std r0, 16(r1); \
> + stdu r1, -32(r1); \
> + bl func; \
> + ld r1, 0(r1); \
> + ld r1, 0(r1);
> +#else
> +#define TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER(func) \
> + bl func;
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * Most of the CPU's IRQ-state tracing is done from assembly code; we
> * have to call a C function so call a wrapper that saves all the
> * C-clobbered registers.
> */
> -#define TRACE_ENABLE_INTS bl .trace_hardirqs_on
> -#define TRACE_DISABLE_INTS bl .trace_hardirqs_off
> -#define TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ_PARTIAL(en,skip) \
> - cmpdi en,0; \
> - bne 95f; \
> - stb en,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13); \
> - bl .trace_hardirqs_off; \
> - b skip; \
> -95: bl .trace_hardirqs_on; \
> +#define TRACE_ENABLE_INTS TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER(.trace_hardirqs_on)
> +#define TRACE_DISABLE_INTS TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER(.trace_hardirqs_off)
> +
> +#define TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ_PARTIAL(en,skip) \
> + cmpdi en,0; \
> + bne 95f; \
> + stb en,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13); \
> + TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER(.trace_hardirqs_off) \
> + b skip; \
> +95: TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER(.trace_hardirqs_on) \
> li en,1;
> #define TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ(en) \
> TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ_PARTIAL(en,96f); \
> - stb en,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13); \
> + stb en,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13); \
> 96:
> #else
> #define TRACE_ENABLE_INTS
>
>
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