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2010-11-18x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routinesSoeren Sandmann Pedersen
The various stack tracing routines take a 'bp' argument in which the caller is supposed to provide the base pointer to use, or 0 if doesn't have one. Since bp is garbage whenever CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not defined, this means all callers in principle should either always pass 0, or be conditional on CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. However, there are only really three use cases for stack tracing: (a) Trace the current task, including IRQ stack if any (b) Trace the current task, but skip IRQ stack (c) Trace some other task In all cases, if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not defined, bp should just be 0. If it _is_ defined, then - in case (a) bp should be gotten directly from the CPU's register, so the caller should pass NULL for regs, - in case (b) the caller should should pass the IRQ registers to dump_trace(), - in case (c) bp should be gotten from the top of the task's stack, so the caller should pass NULL for regs. Hence, the bp argument is not necessary because the combination of task and regs is sufficient to determine an appropriate value for bp. This patch introduces a new inline function stack_frame(task, regs) that computes the desired bp. This function is then called from the two versions of dump_stack(). Signed-off-by: Soren Sandmann <ssp@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>, LKML-Reference: <m3oc9rop28.fsf@dhcp-100-3-82.bos.redhat.com>> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09x86: Unify save_stack_address() and save_stack_address_nosched()Oleg Nesterov
Cleanup. Factor the common code in save_stack_address() and save_stack_address_nosched(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20100603193243.GA31534@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09x86: Make save_stack_address() !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER friendlyOleg Nesterov
If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n, print_context_stack() shouldn't neglect the non-reliable addresses on stack, this is all we have if dump_trace(bp) is called with the wrong or zero bp. For example, /proc/pid/stack doesn't work if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n. This patch obviously has no effect if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y, otherwise it reverts 1650743c "x86: don't save unreliable stack trace entries". Also, remove the unnecessary type-cast. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100603193239.GA31530@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-08x86: Unify dumpstack.h and stacktrace.hFrederic Weisbecker
arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h and arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h declare headers of objects that deal with the same topic. Actually most of the files that include stacktrace.h also include dumpstack.h Although dumpstack.h seems more reserved for internals of stack traces, those are quite often needed to define specialized stack trace operations. And perf event arch headers are going to need access to such low level operations anyway. So don't continue to bother with dumpstack.h as it's not anymore about isolated deep internals. v2: fix struct stack_frame definition conflict in sysprof Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
2009-12-17perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optionalFrederic Weisbecker
The current print_context_stack helper that does the stack walking job is good for usual stacktraces as it walks through all the stack and reports even addresses that look unreliable, which is nice when we don't have frame pointers for example. But we have users like perf that only require reliable stacktraces, and those may want a more adapted stack walker, so lets make this function a callback in stacktrace_ops that users can tune for their needs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12x86: add save_stack_trace_bp() for tracing from a specific stack frameVegard Nossum
This will help kmemcheck (and possibly other debugging tools) since we can now simply pass regs->bp to the stack tracer instead of specifying the number of stack frames to skip, which is unreliable if gcc decides to inline functions, etc. Note that this makes the API incomplete for other architectures, but I expect that those can be updated lazily, e.g. when they need it. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-05-14x86/stacktrace: return 0 instead of -1 for stack opsSteven Rostedt
If we return -1 in the ops->stack for the stacktrace saving, we end up breaking out of the loop if the stack we are tracing is in the exception stack. This causes traces like: <idle>-0 [002] 34263.745825: raise_softirq_irqoff <-__blk_complete_request <idle>-0 [002] 34263.745826: <= 0 <= 0 <= 0 <= 0 <= 0 <= 0 <= 0 By returning "0" instead, the irq stack is saved as well, and we see: <idle>-0 [003] 883.280992: raise_softirq_irqoff <-__hrtimer_star t_range_ns <idle>-0 [003] 883.280992: <= hrtimer_start_range_ns <= tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick <= cpu_idle <= start_secondary <= <= 0 <= 0 [ Impact: record stacks from interrupts ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-01-31x86: update copyrightsIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/stack-tracer: fix style issuesTörök Edwin
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrlTörök Edwin
Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature Usage example: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'. To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing). Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-30stacktrace: fix modular build, export print_stack_trace and save_stack_traceIngo Molnar
fix: ERROR: "print_stack_trace" [kernel/backtracetest.ko] undefined! ERROR: "save_stack_trace" [kernel/backtracetest.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> and fix: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 376 modules ERROR: "print_stack_trace" [kernel/backtracetest.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: don't save unreliable stack trace entriesVegard Nossum
Currently, there is no way for print_stack_trace() to determine whether a given stack trace entry was deemed reliable or not, simply because save_stack_trace() does not record this information. (Perhaps needless to say, this makes the saved stack traces A LOT harder to read, and probably with no other benefits, since debugging features that use save_stack_trace() most likely also require frame pointers, etc.) This patch reverts to the old behaviour of only recording the reliable trace entries for saved stack traces. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30x86: remove unneded castsJan Engelhardt
x86: remove unneeded casts Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: pull bp calculation earlier into the backtrace pathArjan van de Ven
Right now, we take the stack pointer early during the backtrace path, but only calculate bp several functions deep later, making it hard to reconcile the stack and bp backtraces (as well as showing several internal backtrace functions on the stack with bp based backtracing). This patch moves the bp taking to the same place we take the stack pointer; sadly this ripples through several layers of the back tracing stack, but it's not all that bad in the end I hope. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: add the capability to print fuzzy backtracesArjan van de Ven
For enhancing the 32 bit EBP based backtracer, I need the capability for the backtracer to tell it's customer that an entry is either reliable or unreliable, and the backtrace printing code then needs to print the unreliable ones slightly different. This patch adds the basic capability, the next patch will add a user of this capability. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: nuke a ton of unused exportsThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: latencytop supportArjan van de Ven
LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17x86: constify stacktrace_opsJan Beulich
.. as they're never written to. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-13Delete filenames in comments.Dave Jones
Since the x86 merge, lots of files that referenced their own filenames are no longer correct. Rather than keep them up to date, just delete them, as they add no real value. Additionally: - fix up comment formatting in scx200_32.c - Remove a credit from myself in setup_64.c from a time when we had no SCM - remove longwinded history from tsc_32.c which can be figured out from git. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-11x86_64: move kernelThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>