linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm/stacktrace: stop unwinding after an invalid address.

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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:53:38 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, will.deacon@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        pankaj.m@...sung.com, a.sahrawat@...sung.com,
        Vaneet Narang <v.narang@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm/stacktrace: stop unwinding after an invalid
 address.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 05:16:42PM +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> This patch stops unwinding backtrace in case of below 2 cases.
> 
> (Issue observed while porting stackdepot on ARM, duplicate
> entries created in stackdepot
> reference patch for workaround in stackdepot:-
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/11/353
> ).
> 
> 1. If address belongs to irq/exception code, ignore it.
> save_stack+0x40/0xec
>  __set_page_owner+0x2c/0x64
> ....
> ....
>  __handle_domain_irq+0x9c/0x130
>  gic_handle_irq+0x40/0x80
>  __irq_usr+0x4c/0x60
>  0xb6507818
> ^^^^^^^

However, we _do_ want to trace through an IRQ taken in SVC mode, but you
completely remove all that code.  So, not taking this patch, sorry.

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