From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754872AbcEWLk0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 07:40:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49217 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752476AbcEWLkX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 07:40:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 06:40:21 -0500 From: Josh Poimboeuf To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Brian Gerst , Thomas Gleixner , Denys Vlasenko , Ingo Molnar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , X86 ML Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code Message-ID: <20160523114021.hog2qzmm2nhwbxa4@treble> References: <1463846691-18498-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> <1463846691-18498-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> <20160523023414.laljasegs2cex5be@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0.1 (2016-04-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Mon, 23 May 2016 11:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:47:22PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> cc: Josh Poimboeuf: do you care about the exact stack layout of the > >> bottom of the stack of an inactive task? > > > > So there's one minor issue with this patch, relating to unwinding the > > stack of a newly forked task. For detecting reliable stacks, the > > unwinder needs to unwind all the way to the syscall pt_regs to make sure > > the stack is sane. But for newly forked tasks, that won't be possible > > here because the unwinding will stop at the fork_frame instead. > > > > So from an unwinder standpoint it might be nice for copy_thread_tls() to > > place a frame pointer on the stack next to the ret_from_fork return > > address, so that it would resemble an actual stack frame. The frame > > pointer could probably just be hard-coded to zero. And then the first > > bp in fork_frame would need to be a pointer to it instead of zero. That > > would make it nicely resemble the stack of any other task. > > > > Alternatively I could teach the unwinder that if the unwinding starts at > > the fork_frame offset from the end of the stack page, and the saved rbp > > is zero, it can assume that it's a newly forked task. But that seems a > > little more brittle to me, as it requires the unwinder to understand > > more of the internal workings of the fork code. > > > > But overall I think this patch is a really nice cleanup, and other than > > the above minor issue it should be fine with my reliable unwinder, since > > rbp is still at the top of the stack. > > Is this a regression or is there some reason that it works right > without the patch? Without the patch, it uses TIF_FORK to determine the stack is empty. > In any event, whatever we settle on for general pt_regs unwinding > should work for this, too. Yeah, agreed. -- Josh