This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: stacktrace: avoid listing stacktrace functions in stacktrace
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-stacktrace-avoid-listing-stacktrace-functions-in-stacktrace.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3683f44c42e991d313dc301504ee0fca1aeb8580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 11:03:28 +0100
Subject: ARM: stacktrace: avoid listing stacktrace functions in stacktrace
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3683f44c42e991d313dc301504ee0fca1aeb8580 upstream.
While debugging the FEC ethernet driver using stacktrace, it was noticed
that the stacktraces always begin as follows:
[<c00117b4>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x98
[<c0011870>] save_stack_trace+0x24/0x28
...
This is because the stack trace code includes the stack frames for itself.
This is incorrect behaviour, and also leads to "skip" doing the wrong
thing (which is the number of stack frames to avoid recording.)
Perversely, it does the right thing when passed a non-current thread. Fix
this by ensuring that we have a known constant number of frames above the
main stack trace function, and always skip these.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -83,13 +83,16 @@ static int save_trace(struct stackframe
return trace->nr_entries >= trace->max_entries;
}
-void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)
+/* This must be noinline to so that our skip calculation works correctly */
+static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ struct stack_trace *trace, unsigned int nosched)
{
struct stack_trace_data data;
struct stackframe frame;
data.trace = trace;
data.skip = trace->skip;
+ data.no_sched_functions = nosched;
if (tsk != current) {
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -102,7 +105,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_st
trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
return;
#else
- data.no_sched_functions = 1;
frame.fp = thread_saved_fp(tsk);
frame.sp = thread_saved_sp(tsk);
frame.lr = 0; /* recovered from the stack */
@@ -111,11 +113,12 @@ void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_st
} else {
register unsigned long current_sp asm ("sp");
- data.no_sched_functions = 0;
+ /* We don't want this function nor the caller */
+ data.skip += 2;
frame.fp = (unsigned long)__builtin_frame_address(0);
frame.sp = current_sp;
frame.lr = (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0);
- frame.pc = (unsigned long)save_stack_trace_tsk;
+ frame.pc = (unsigned long)__save_stack_trace;
}
walk_stackframe(&frame, save_trace, &data);
@@ -123,9 +126,14 @@ void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_st
trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
}
+void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)
+{
+ __save_stack_trace(tsk, trace, 1);
+}
+
void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
{
- save_stack_trace_tsk(current, trace);
+ __save_stack_trace(current, trace, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace);
#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/arm-stacktrace-avoid-listing-stacktrace-functions-in-stacktrace.patch
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