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Message-Id: <C4A80DBB-1ED2-4899-9BB2-97F7833B993A@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:54:49 +0900
From:	Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@...il.com>
To:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, catalin.marinas@....com,
	will.deacon@....com, olof@...om.net, broonie@...nel.org,
	david.griego@...aro.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] arm64: refactor save_stack_trace()

On Jul 16, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Jungseok Lee wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2015, at 10:08 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> 
> Hi, AKASHI
> 
>> On 07/16/2015 09:27 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>>> On 07/16/2015 01:13 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:55:36 -0400
>>>> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I'll take a look at it and try to clean up the code.
>>>> 
>>>> Does the  following patch make sense for you?
>>> 
>>> Looks nice. The patch greatly simplifies changes on arm64 side.
>> 
>> As follows:
>> 
>> - Takahiro AKASHI
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
>> index c5534fa..868d6f1 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
>> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>> 
>> #define MCOUNT_ADDR		((unsigned long)_mcount)
>> #define MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE	AARCH64_INSN_SIZE
>> +#define FTRACE_STACK_FRAME_OFFSET 4 /* sync it up with stacktrace.c */
> 
> How about binding it to -4 in unwind_frame function?
> IMHO, it would help other developers trying to change stack trace code
> be aware of this stack tracer feature.
> 
>> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>> #include <linux/compat.h>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> index 1da6029..2c1bf7d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> @@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ static inline void ftrace_kill(void) { }
>> #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */
>> 
>> #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_TRACER
>> +/*
>> + * the offset value to add to return address from save_stack_trace()
>> + */
>> +#ifndef FTRACE_STACK_FRAME_OFFSET
>> +#define FTRACE_STACK_FRAME_OFFSET 0
>> +#endif
>> +
>> extern int stack_tracer_enabled;
>> int
>> stack_trace_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
>> index 9384647..c5b9748 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
>> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
>> 
>> 	/* Skip over the overhead of the stack tracer itself */
>> 	for (i = 0; i < max_stack_trace.nr_entries; i++) {
>> -		if (stack_dump_trace[i] == ip)
>> +		if ((stack_dump_trace[i] + FTRACE_STACK_FRAME_OFFSET) == ip)
>> 			break;
>> 	}
>> 
>> @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
>> 		p = start;
>> 
>> 		for (; p < top && i < max_stack_trace.nr_entries; p++) {
>> -			if (*p == stack_dump_trace[i]) {
>> +			if (*p == (stack_dump_trace[i]
>> +					+ FTRACE_STACK_FRAME_OFFSET)) {
>> 				stack_dump_trace[x] = stack_dump_trace[i++];
>> 				this_size = stack_dump_index[x++] =
>> 					(top - p) * sizeof(unsigned long);
>> -- 
> 
> I've prepared a kernel with the following patches and reviewed them.
> 
> 1) Steve's clean up patch 
> 2) This patch
> 3) [RFC 2/3]
> 
> AFAIU, [RFC 3/3] is not needed any more thanks to Steve's patch.
> 
> First of all, let's look at the following data.
> 
> 1) stack_trace data
>        Depth    Size   Location    (55 entries)
>        -----    ----   --------
>  0)     4808      16   notifier_call_chain+0x2c/0x94
>  1)     4792      64   raw_notifier_call_chain+0x34/0x44
>  2)     4728      48   timekeeping_update.constprop.9+0xb8/0x114
>  3)     4680      48   update_wall_time+0x408/0x6dc
>  4)     4632     128   tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xd8/0x154
>  5)     4504      80   tick_sched_do_timer+0x50/0x60
>  6)     4424      32   tick_sched_timer+0x34/0x90
>  7)     4392      48   __run_hrtimer+0x60/0x258
>  8)     4344      64   hrtimer_interrupt+0xe8/0x260
>  9)     4280     128   arch_timer_handler_virt+0x38/0x48
> 10)     4152      32   handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x84/0x188
> 11)     4120      64   generic_handle_irq+0x38/0x54
> 12)     4056      32   __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xbc
> 13)     4024      64   gic_handle_irq+0x38/0x88
> 14)     3960     336   el1_irq+0x64/0xd8
> 15)     3624      16   netif_rx_internal+0x14/0x198
> 16)     3608      64   netif_rx+0x20/0xa4
> 17)     3544      32   loopback_xmit+0x64/0xf4
> 18)     3512      48   dev_hard_start_xmit+0x25c/0x3f8
> 19)     3464     160   __dev_queue_xmit+0x440/0x4dc
> 20)     3304      96   dev_queue_xmit_sk+0x20/0x30
> 21)     3208      32   ip_finish_output+0x1e0/0xabc
> 22)     3176      96   ip_output+0xf0/0x120
> 23)     3080      64   ip_local_out_sk+0x44/0x54
> 24)     3016      32   ip_send_skb+0x24/0xbc
> 25)     2984      48   ip_push_pending_frames+0x40/0x60
> 26)     2936      64   icmp_push_reply+0x104/0x144
> 27)     2872      96   icmp_send+0x3c0/0x3c8
> 28)     2776     192   __udp4_lib_rcv+0x5b8/0x684
> 29)     2584      96   udp_rcv+0x2c/0x3c
> 30)     2488      32   ip_local_deliver+0xa0/0x224
> 31)     2456      48   ip_rcv+0x360/0x57c
> 32)     2408      64   __netif_receive_skb_core+0x4d0/0x80c
> 33)     2344     128   __netif_receive_skb+0x24/0x84
> 34)     2216      32   process_backlog+0x9c/0x15c
> 35)     2184      80   net_rx_action+0x1ec/0x32c
> 36)     2104     160   __do_softirq+0x114/0x2f0
> 37)     1944     128   do_softirq+0x60/0x68
> 38)     1816      32   __local_bh_enable_ip+0xb0/0xd4
> 39)     1784      32   ip_finish_output+0x1f4/0xabc
> 40)     1752      96   ip_output+0xf0/0x120
> 41)     1656      64   ip_local_out_sk+0x44/0x54
> 42)     1592      32   ip_send_skb+0x24/0xbc
> 43)     1560      48   udp_send_skb+0x1b4/0x2f4
> 44)     1512      80   udp_sendmsg+0x2a8/0x7a0
> 45)     1432     272   inet_sendmsg+0xa0/0xd0
> 46)     1160      48   sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x78
> 47)     1112      32   ___sys_sendmsg+0x15c/0x26c
> 48)     1080     400   __sys_sendmmsg+0x94/0x180
> 49)      680     320   SyS_sendmmsg+0x38/0x54
> 50)      360     360   el0_svc_naked+0x20/0x28
> 
> 2) stack_max_size data
> 4888
> 
> The data looks odd in two points.
> 1) the number of entry
> There is a mismatch between start token and real data
> 
> 2) 80-byte gap
> stack_max_size is not aligned with "Depth" field of the first entry of stack_trace.
> 
> IMHO, two items are not considered in this series as digging them out.
> 
> 1) skipped entries
> As x variable is introduced in Steve's patch, it is needed to track down
> how many entries are recorded in both stack_dump_trace and stack_dump_index.
> 
> 2) max_stack_trace.skip value
> max_stack_trace.skip is 0 as applying Steve's patch. The above gap could be
> observed unless the value is not considered in arch code. In the above example,
> 80-byte gap is save_stack_trace function in arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c.
> 
> As applying the following fix, stack_trace and stack_max_size are okay.
> However, I'm not sure which code, arch or generic ftrace, should handle trace->skip.
> The latter one is responsible for it under current implementation, not Steve's change.
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Best Regards
> Jungseok Lee
> 
> ----8<----
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index 978c923..5f6f4df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
> 
> 	frame.fp = (unsigned long)__builtin_frame_address(0);
> 	frame.sp = current_stack_pointer;
> -	frame.pc = (unsigned long)save_stack_trace_tsk;
> +	frame.pc = (unsigned long)save_stack_trace;
> +
> +	trace->skip += 4;
> 
> 	__save_stack_trace(&frame, trace, 0);
> }
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
> index c5b9748..5635683 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
> @@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
> 			i++;
> 	}
> 
> +	/* We do not want to include skipped entries */
> +	max_stack_trace.nr_entries -= (i - x);
> +
> 	for (; x < max_stack_trace.nr_entries; x++)

This line should be changed as follows.

for (; x < i; x++)

Sorry for confusion.

Best Regards
Jungseok Lee--
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