linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again

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Message-ID: <1393188288.11020.9.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:44:48 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again

On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 12:27 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I would *really* want to do this kernel change (possibly
> conditional on RANDOMIZE_BASE_ADDRESS or whatever the config variable
> is called):
> 
>     diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
>     index d9c12d3022a7..58039e728f00 100644
>     --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
>     +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
>     @@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ static int die_counter;
> 
>      static void printk_stack_address(unsigned long address, int reliable)
>      {
>     -       pr_cont(" [<%p>] %s%pB\n",
>     -               (void *)address, reliable ? "" : "? ", (void *)address);
>     +       pr_cont(" %s[<%pB>]\n", reliable ? "" : "? ", (void *)address);
>      }
> 
>      void printk_address(unsigned long address)
>      {
>     -       pr_cont(" [<%p>] %pS\n", (void *)address, (void *)address);
>     +       pr_cont(" [<%pS>]\n", (void *)address);
>      }
> 
>      #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER

I'd rather see this as a vsprintf extension so
that it is more difficult to interleave and
doesn't need to be replicated for each arch.


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