@@ -20,13 +20,27 @@
#define STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES 500
+/*
+ * If fentry is used, then the function being traced will
+ * jump to fentry directly before it sets up its stack frame.
+ * We need to ignore that one and record the parent. Since
+ * the stack frame for the traced function wasn't set up yet,
+ * the stack_trace wont see the parent. That needs to be added
+ * manually to stack_dump_trace[] as the first element.
+ */
+#ifdef CC_USING_FENTRY
+# define add_func 1
+#else
+# define add_func 0
+#endif
+
static unsigned long stack_dump_trace[STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES+1] =
{ [0 ... (STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES)] = ULONG_MAX };
static unsigned stack_dump_index[STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES];
static struct stack_trace max_stack_trace = {
- .max_entries = STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES,
- .entries = stack_dump_trace,
+ .max_entries = STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES - add_func,
+ .entries = &stack_dump_trace[add_func],
};
static unsigned long max_stack_size;
@@ -41,7 +55,7 @@ int stack_tracer_enabled;
static int last_stack_tracer_enabled;
static inline void
-check_stack(unsigned long *stack)
+check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
{
unsigned long this_size, flags;
unsigned long *p, *top, *start;
@@ -72,6 +86,17 @@ check_stack(unsigned long *stack)
save_stack_trace(&max_stack_trace);
/*
+ * When fentry is used, the traced function does not get
+ * its stack frame set up, and we lose the parent.
+ * Add that one in manally. We set up save_stack_trace()
+ * to not touch the first element in this case.
+ */
+ if (add_func) {
+ stack_dump_trace[0] = ip;
+ max_stack_trace.nr_entries++;
+ }
+
+ /*
* Now find where in the stack these are.
*/
i = 0;
@@ -127,7 +152,7 @@ stack_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
if (per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++ != 0)
goto out;
- check_stack(&stack);
+ check_stack(parent_ip, &stack);
out:
per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled tracing: Fix stack tracer with fentry use to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 9ce0a50e6d1da2aa24f66071937ff6bf3b66611a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:25:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix stack tracer with fentry use commit d4ecbfc49b4b1d4b597fb5ba9e4fa25d62f105c5 upstream. When gcc 4.6 on x86 is used, the function tracer will use the new option -mfentry which does a call to "fentry" at every function instead of "mcount". The significance of this is that fentry is called as the first operation of the function instead of the mcount usage of being called after the stack. This causes the stack tracer to show some bogus results for the size of the last function traced, as well as showing "ftrace_call" instead of the function. This is due to the stack frame not being set up by the function that is about to be traced. # cat stack_trace Depth Size Location (48 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 4824 216 ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f 1) 4608 112 ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d 2) 4496 80 kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f The 216 size for ftrace_call includes both the ftrace_call stack (which includes the saving of registers it does), as well as the stack size of the parent. To fix this, if CC_USING_FENTRY is defined, then the stack_tracer will reserve the first item in stack_dump_trace[] array when calling save_stack_trace(), and it will fill it in with the parent ip. Then the code will look for the parent pointer on the stack and give the real size of the parent's stack pointer: # cat stack_trace Depth Size Location (14 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 2640 48 update_group_power+0x26/0x187 1) 2592 224 update_sd_lb_stats+0x2a5/0x4ac 2) 2368 160 find_busiest_group+0x31/0x1f1 3) 2208 256 load_balance+0xd9/0x662 I'm Cc'ing stable, although it's not urgent, as it only shows bogus size for item #0, the rest of the trace is legit. It should still be corrected in previous stable releases. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.2