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Message-ID: <20250124181610.zdqvdaeqrp7kyzis@jpoimboe>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:16:10 -0800
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 12/39] unwind_user: Add frame pointer support

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:59:37AM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Add optional support for user space frame pointer unwinding.  If
> > supported, the arch needs to enable CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP and
> > define ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_FRAME.
> >
> > By encoding the frame offsets in struct unwind_user_frame, much of this
> > code can also be reused for future unwinder implementations like sframe.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/Kconfig                      |  4 +++
> >  include/asm-generic/unwind_user.h |  9 ++++++
> >  include/linux/unwind_user_types.h |  1 +
> >  kernel/unwind/user.c              | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/unwind_user.h
> >
> 
> Do you plan to reuse this logic for stack unwinding done by perf
> subsystem in perf_callchain_user()? See is_uprobe_at_func_entry()
> parts and also fixup_uretprobe_trampoline_entries() for some of the
> quirks that have to be taken into account when doing frame
> pointer-based unwinding. It would be great not to lose those in this
> new reimplementation.
> 
> Not sure what's the best way to avoid duplicating the logic, but I
> thought I'd bring that up.

Indeed!  That was on the todo list and somehow evaporated.

-- 
Josh

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