linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking/mutex: Pass proper call-site ip

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Message-ID: <20220301194720.GJ11184@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 1 Mar 2022 20:47:20 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, Radoslaw Burny <rburny@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking/mutex: Pass proper call-site ip

On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 10:05:12 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 05:04:11PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > The __mutex_lock_slowpath() and friends are declared as noinline and
> > > _RET_IP_ returns its caller as mutex_lock which is not meaningful.
> > > Pass the ip from mutex_lock() to have actual caller info in the trace.  
> > 
> > Blergh, can't you do a very limited unwind when you do the tracing
> > instead? 3 or 4 levels should be plenty fast and sufficient.
> 
> Is there a fast and sufficient way that works across architectures?

The normal stacktrace API? Or the fancy new arch_stack_walk() which is
already available on most architectures you actually care about and
risc-v :-)

Remember, this is the contention path, we're going to stall anyway,
doing a few levels of unwind shouldn't really hurt at that point.

Anyway; when I wrote that this morning, I was thinking:

	unsigned long ips[4];
	stack_trace_save(ips, 4, 0);


> Could objtool help here?

There's a contradition there... objtool is still x86_64 only :-/

IIRC there's been work on s390, arm64 and power objtool, but so far none
of them actually made it in.