linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 01/10] unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support

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Message-ID: <5fb8ada0-d90c-4a58-a38d-97b3d0787554@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:24:52 +0200
From: Jens Remus <jremus@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@...cle.com>,
        "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@....org>,
        Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Sam James <sam@...too.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 01/10] unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with
 frame pointer support

On 25.07.2025 20:55, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
> 
> Introduce a generic API for unwinding user stacks.
> 
> In order to expand user space unwinding to be able to handle more complex
> scenarios, such as deferred unwinding and reading user space information,
> create a generic interface that all architectures can use that support the
> various unwinding methods.
> 
> This is an alternative method for handling user space stack traces from
> the simple stack_trace_save_user() API. This does not replace that
> interface, but this interface will be used to expand the functionality of
> user space stack walking.
> 
> None of the structures introduced will be exposed to user space tooling.
> 
> Support for frame pointer unwinding is added. For an architecture to
> support frame pointer unwinding it 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>
> Co-developed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250710164301.3094-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Reviewed-by: Jens Remus <jremus@...ux.ibm.com>

> diff --git a/kernel/unwind/user.c b/kernel/unwind/user.c

> +static int unwind_user_next_fp(struct unwind_user_state *state)
> +{
> +	struct unwind_user_frame *frame = &fp_frame;

Optional: Pointer to const?

> +	unsigned long cfa, fp, ra = 0;

Nit: Is initialization of ra really required?  I don't see where ra
would be getting used without being set beforehand.

> +	unsigned int shift;
> +
> +	if (frame->use_fp) {
> +		if (state->fp < state->sp)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		cfa = state->fp;
> +	} else {
> +		cfa = state->sp;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Get the Canonical Frame Address (CFA) */
> +	cfa += frame->cfa_off;
> +
> +	/* stack going in wrong direction? */
> +	if (cfa <= state->sp)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* Make sure that the address is word aligned */
> +	shift = sizeof(long) == 4 ? 2 : 3;
> +	if (cfa & ((1 << shift) - 1))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* Find the Return Address (RA) */
> +	if (get_user(ra, (unsigned long *)(cfa + frame->ra_off)))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (frame->fp_off && get_user(fp, (unsigned long __user *)(cfa + frame->fp_off)))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	state->ip = ra;
> +	state->sp = cfa;
> +	if (frame->fp_off)
> +		state->fp = fp;
> +	return 0;
> +}

Regards,
Jens
-- 
Jens Remus
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