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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-03-29 14:06:14 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-04-02 12:12:45 -0400
commit5f639fdcd8c186c8128c616e94a7e7b159c968ae (patch)
tree92b6f3658eeb428569baf3e8c4b0aee83d4ba077 /arch/x86/kernel
parentefb734d8ed040b053f53fd53589ed5d9c9b5cd04 (diff)
arch/tile: various bugs in stack backtracer
Fix a long-standing bug in the stack backtracer where we would print garbage to the console instead of kernel function names, if the kernel wasn't built with symbol support (e.g. mboot). Make sure to tag every line of userspace backtrace output if we actually have the mmap_sem, since that way if there's no tag, we know that it's because we couldn't trylock the semaphore. Stop doing a TLB flush and examining page tables during backtrace. Instead, just trust that __copy_from_user_inatomic() will properly fault and return a failure, which it should do in all cases. Fix a latent bug where the backtracer would directly examine a signal context in user space, rather than copying it safely to kernel memory first. This meant that a race with another thread could potentially have caused a kernel panic. Guard against unaligned sp when trying to restart backtrace at an interrupt or signal handler point in the kernel backtracer. Report kernel symbolic information for the call instruction rather than for the following instruction. We still report the actual numeric address corresponding to the instruction after the call, for the sake of consistency with the normal expectations for stack backtracers. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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