linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm: perf: Fix userspace call stack walking

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Message-ID: <20151005123242.GB8818@arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2015 13:32:42 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@....com>
Cc:	"a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"acme@...nel.org" <acme@...nel.org>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Wade Cherry <Wade.Cherry@....com>,
	Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: perf: Fix userspace call stack walking

Hi Drew,

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 06:26:47PM +0100, Drew Richardson wrote:
> I got some undeliverable responses the first time, sorry if you get this twice
> 
> ---
> 
> The layout of stack frames has changed over time. Testing using a
> arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-4.2 from 2007 the original code didn't work but
> this new code does. It also works with clang as well as newer versions
> of gcc.
> 
> gcc has this layout for it's stackframes
> 
> caller_fp
> caller_lr <- fp
> 
> However clang has this layout
> 
> caller_fp <- fp
> caller_lr

Do you have any buy-in from the toolchain people that this won't continue
to change over time? Adding more and more heuristics to walk the stack of
binaries compiled using GCC x.y doesn't really scale...

> Since the layouts are not compatible use a heuristic to determine for
> each stack frame which layout is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@....com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Please can you update the compat stack walker in
arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c too?

Will
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