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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:45:40 +0800
From: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: stacktrace: Add USER_STACKTRACE support
On 2024/8/2 19:48, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:15:32AM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> Currently, userstacktrace is unsupported for ARM. So use the
>> perf_callchain_user() code as blueprint to implement the
>> arch_stack_walk_user() which add userstacktrace support on ARM.
>> Meanwhile, we can use arch_stack_walk_user() to simplify the implementation
>> of perf_callchain_user().
>>
>> A ftrace test case is shown as below:
>> # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
>> # echo 1 > options/userstacktrace
>> # echo 1 > options/sym-userobj
>> # echo 1 > events/sched/sched_process_fork/enable
>> # cat trace
>>
>> ......
>> sh-100 [000] ..... 51.779261: sched_process_fork: comm=sh pid=100 child_comm=sh child_pid=108
>> sh-100 [000] ..... 51.779285: <user stack trace>
>> => /lib/libc.so.6[+0xb3c8c]
>> => /bin/busybox[+0xffb901f1]
>>
>> Also a simple perf test is ok as below:
>> # perf record -e cpu-clock --call-graph fp top
>> # perf report --call-graph
>>
>> .....
>> [[31m 65.00%[[m 0.00% top [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ret_fast_syscall
>>
>> |
>> ---__ret_fast_syscall
>> |
>> |--[[31m30.00%[[m--__se_sys_getdents64
>> | iterate_dir
>> | |
>> | |--[[31m25.00%[[m--proc_pid_readdir
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
>
> Do you have a use case for this feature?
To my knowledge, user stack trace is used in both uprobes and ftrace.
>
> Given that userspace is free to do whatever it likes with stack frames,
> I think this is going to be hit and miss whether it works.
To be honest, I referred to the implementation of ARM64. Does anyone
have suggestions for improvements or modifications?
>
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