linux-kernel - Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs

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Message-ID: <20140212074422.1eaff068@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:44:22 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs_disabled.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 03:13:33 -0500
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:59:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > There's a lot of 200+ byte stack frames in block/blk-core.s, and they
> > all seem to be of the type perf_trace_block_buffer() - things created
> > with DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(), afaik. Why they all have 200+ bytes of
> > frame, I have no idea. That sounds like a potential disaster too,
> > although hopefully it's mostly leaf functions - but leaf functions
> > *deep* in the callchain. Tejun? Steven, why _do_ they end up with such
> > huge frames?
> 
> It looks like they're essentially the same for all the automatically
> generated trace functions.  I'm seeing 232 byte stack frame in most of
> them.  If I'm not completely confused by these macros, these are
> generated by DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() in include/trace/ftrace.h and
> contains struct pt_regs in the stack frame which is already 168 bytes,
> so that seems like the culprit.  No idea whether this is something
> avoidable.  At least they shouldn't nest in any way.  Steven?

They shouldn't nest. But if the perf tracepoint is active, I don't know
how much more of the stack is used in the functions that tracepoint
calls.

-- Steve
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