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>
This patch implements the oprofile backtrace generation for 32 bit
applications running in the 64bit environment (compat mode).
With this change it's possible to get backtrace for 32bits applications
under the 64bits environment using oprofile's callgraph options.
opcontrol --setup -c ...
opreport -l -cg ...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Removing unnecessary struct frame_head and replacing it with
struct stack_frame.
The struct stack_frame is already defined and used in other places
in kernel, so there's no reason to define new structure.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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>
Use ®s->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)
[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Choose a less generic name for such a special case. Add
a comment explaining the odd use in X86_32.
Change the one user of stack_pointer.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
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>
We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers. In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.
This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch defines frame_pointer() and stack_pointer() similar to the
already defined instruction_pointer(). Thus the oprofile code can be
written in a more readable fashion.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch improves oprofile callgraphs for i386/x86_64. The old
backtracing code was unable to produce kernel backtraces if the
kernel wasn't compiled with framepointers. The code now uses
dump_trace().
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
