linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] ftrace, orc, x86, tracing: Fix stack traces again

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:59:53 +0200
From:   Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ftrace, orc, x86, tracing: Fix stack traces again



On 23.01.2018 20:32, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> With the new ORC unwinder, ftrace stack tracing became disfunctional.
> 
> One was that ORC didn't know how to handle the ftrace callbacks in
> general (which Josh fixed). The other was that ORC would just bail
> if it hit a dynamically allocated trampoline. I added a check to
> the ORC unwinder to see if the trampoline belonged to ftrace, and
> if it did, use the orc entry of the static trampoline that was used
> to create the dynamic one (it would be identical).
> 
> Finally, I noticed that the skip values of the stack tracing is out
> of whack. I went through and fixed them.
> 
> Anyone have any issues with these patches? I'm starting my tests on
> them now and if all goes well, I plan on pushing them to Linus
> hopefully tonight.
> 
> Thanks!

FWIW with this series ftrace with ORC now produces correct stacktraces
both for events and function tracing. Furthermore, with frame pointer
unwinder I don't see chopped off stack entries.

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> Josh Poimboeuf (1):
>       x86/ftrace: Fix ORC unwinding from ftrace handlers
> 
> Steven Rostedt (VMware) (2):
>       ftrace, orc, x86: Handle ftrace dynamically allocated trampolines
>       tracing: Update stack trace skipping for ORC unwinder
> 
> ----
>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile            |  5 +++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.S         | 24 +++++++++++-------
>  arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c        | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/ftrace.h              |  2 ++
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c               | 26 +++++++++++---------
>  kernel/trace/trace.c                | 34 ++++++++++++++-----------
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 13 ++++++++--
>  kernel/trace/trace_functions.c      | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  8 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>