linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/traps: Show instructions on exceptions

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Message-ID: <20180725180134.Horde.BdhyE2b-TXhoVB7W8bsBhg1@messagerie.si.c-s.fr>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:01:34 +0200
From:   LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, "Tobin C . Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
        Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/traps: Show instructions on exceptions

Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com> a écrit :

> Move show_instructions() declaration to arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> and include asm/stracktrace.h in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c,  
> which contains
> the implementation.
>
> Modify show_instructions() not to call __kernel_text_address(), allowing
> userspace instruction dump.  probe_kernel_address(), which returns -EFAULT if
> something goes wrong, is still being called.
>
> Call show_instructions() in arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c to dump  
> instructions at
> faulty location, useful to debugging.

Shouldn't this part be in a second patch ?

Wouldn't it be better to also see regs in addition if we want to use  
this to understand what happened ?
So you could call show_regs() instead of show_instructions() ?

Christophe

>
> Before this patch, an unhandled signal message looked like:
>
>     Jul 24 09:57:00 localhost kernel: pandafault[10524]: segfault  
> (11) at 00000000100007d0 nip 000000001000061c lr 00007fffbd295100  
> code 2 in pandafault[10000000+10000]
>
> After this patch, it looks like:
>
>     Jul 24 09:57:00 localhost kernel: pandafault[10524]: segfault  
> (11) at 00000000100007d0 nip 000000001000061c lr 00007fffbd295100  
> code 2 in pandafault[10000000+10000]
>     Jul 24 09:57:00 localhost kernel: Instruction dump:
>     Jul 24 09:57:00 localhost kernel: 4bfffeec 4bfffee8 3c401002  
> 38427f00 fbe1fff8 f821ffc1 7c3f0b78 3d22fffe
>     Jul 24 09:57:00 localhost kernel: 392988d0 f93f0020 e93f0020  
> 39400048 <99490000> 39200000 7d234b78 383f0040
>
> Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h | 7 +++++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c         | 6 +++---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c           | 3 +++
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h  
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..46e5ef451578
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_STACKTRACE_H
> +#define _ASM_POWERPC_STACKTRACE_H
> +
> +void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs);
> +
> +#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_STACKTRACE_H */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index b1af3390249c..ee1d63e03c52 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
>  #include <asm/machdep.h>
>  #include <asm/time.h>
>  #include <asm/runlatch.h>
> +#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
>  #include <asm/syscalls.h>
>  #include <asm/switch_to.h>
>  #include <asm/tm.h>
> @@ -1261,7 +1262,7 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct  
> task_struct *prev,
>
>  static int instructions_to_print = 16;
>
> -static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	unsigned long pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 *
> @@ -1283,8 +1284,7 @@ static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  			pc = (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(pc);
>  #endif
>
> -		if (!__kernel_text_address(pc) ||
> -		     probe_kernel_address((unsigned int __user *)pc, instr)) {
> +		if (probe_kernel_address((unsigned int __user *)pc, instr)) {
>  			pr_cont("XXXXXXXX ");
>  		} else {
>  			if (regs->nip == pc)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> index e55ee639d010..3beca17ac1b1 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
>  #include <asm/hmi.h>
>  #include <sysdev/fsl_pci.h>
>  #include <asm/kprobes.h>
> +#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
>
>  #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUGGER) || defined(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE)
>  int (*__debugger)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly;
> @@ -357,6 +358,8 @@ static void show_signal_msg(int signr, struct  
> pt_regs *regs, int code,
>  	print_vma_addr(KERN_CONT " in ", regs->nip);
>
>  	pr_cont("\n");
> +
> +	show_instructions(regs);
>  }
>
>  void _exception_pkey(int signr, struct pt_regs *regs, int code,
> --
> 2.17.1