linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Use a separate stack for irq interrupts.

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Message-ID: <55EE83CC.5060206@linaro.org>
Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:44:28 +0900
From:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
To:	Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@...il.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@....com>
CC:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Mailing List" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Use a separate stack for irq interrupts.

On 09/08/2015 10:45 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Jungseok,
>
> On 09/08/2015 01:34 AM, Jungseok Lee wrote:
>> On Sep 8, 2015, at 1:06 AM, James Morse wrote:
>>> On 07/09/15 16:48, Jungseok Lee wrote:
>>>> On Sep 7, 2015, at 11:36 PM, James Morse wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi James,
>>>>
>>>>> Having to handle interrupts on top of an existing kernel stack means the
>>>>> kernel stack must be large enough to accomodate both the maximum kernel
>>>>> usage, and the maximum irq handler usage. Switching to a different stack
>>>>> when processing irqs allows us to make the stack size smaller.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maximum kernel stack usage (running ltp and generating usb+ethernet
>>>>> interrupts) was 7256 bytes. With this patch, the same workload gives
>>>>> a maximum stack usage of 5816 bytes.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to know how to measure the max stack depth.
>>>> AFAIK, a stack tracer on ftrace does not work well. Did you dump a stack
>>>> region and find or track down an untouched region?
>>>
>>> I enabled the 'Trace max stack' option under menuconfig 'Kernel Hacking' ->
>>> 'Tracers', then looked in debugfs:/tracing/stack_max_size.
>>>
>>> What problems did you encounter?
>>> (I may be missing something…)
>>
>> When I enabled the feature, all entries had *0* size except the last entry.
>> It can be reproduced easily as looking in debugs:/tracing/stack_trace.
>
> I'm afraid that you have not applied one of patches in my RFC:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/355919.html
>
> I have not looked into James' patch in details, but hope that it will help
> fix one of issues that are annoying me: Stack tracer (actually save_stack_trace())
> will miss a function (and its parent function in some case) that is being executed
> when an interrupt is taken.

Well, it didn't fix the issue:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace
         Depth    Size   Location    (54 entries)
         -----    ----   --------
   0)     5096      16   irq_copy_thread_info+0x18/0x70
   1)     5080     336   el1_irq+0x78/0x11c

                                  <<<= _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore

   2)     4744      48   __skb_recv_datagram+0x148/0x49c
   3)     4696     208   skb_recv_datagram+0x50/0x60
   4)     4488      64   xs_udp_data_ready+0x48/0x170
   5)     4424      96   sock_queue_rcv_skb+0x1fc/0x270
  ...
  53)      344     344   el0_svc_naked+0x20/0x28

__skb_recv_datagram+0x148 is "bl _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore."

And the frames, #0 and #1, appear here because this patch replaces stack pointers
*after* kernel_entry.

-Takahiro AKASHI

>
> -Takahiro AKASHI
>
>> You can track down my report and Akashi's changes with the following links:
>> - http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/354126.html
>> - https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/29
>>
>> Although it is impossible to measure an exact depth at this moment, the feature
>> could be utilized to check improvement.
>>
>> Cc'ing Akashi for additional comments if needed.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Jungseok Lee
>>
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