linux-kernel - Re: Getting empty callchain from perf_callchain

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:26:52 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Kairui Song <kasong@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting empty callchain from perf_callchain_kernel()

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:10:23AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:05:01 -0500
> Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Right now, ftrace has a special hook in the ORC unwinder
> > (orc_ftrace_find).  It would be great if we could get rid of that in
> > favor of the "always use frame pointers" approach.  I'll hold off on
> > doing the kpatch/kprobe trampoline conversions in my patches since it
> > would conflict with yours.
> 
> Basically, IIUC, what you are saying is that the ftrace trampoline
> should always store the %sp in %rb even when CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not
> enabled? And this can allow you to remove the ftrace specific code from
> the orc unwinder?

Basically, yes.  Though the frame pointer encoding which Peter is adding
to the ftrace/kprobes trampolines might complicate things a bit.

-- 
Josh