Re: [PATCH v3] decode_stacktrace: Decode caller address

["Luca Ceresoli" <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>]

Hello Masami,

On Fri Mar 6, 2026 at 1:50 AM CET, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>
> Decode the caller address instead of the return address by default.
> This also introduced -R option to provide return address decoding
> mode.
>
> This changes the decode_stacktrace.sh to decode the line info 1byte
> before the return address which will be the call(branch) instruction
> address. If the return address is a symbol address (zero offset from
> it), it falls back to decoding the return address.
>
> This improves results especially when optimizations have changed the
> order of the lines around the return address, or when the return
> address does not have the actual line information.
>
> With this change;
>  Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120)
>   lockdep_rcu_suspicious (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6876)
>   event_filter_pid_sched_process_fork (kernel/trace/trace_events.c:1057)
>   kernel_clone (include/trace/events/sched.h:396 include/trace/events/sched.h:396 kernel/fork.c:2664)
>   __x64_sys_clone (kernel/fork.c:2795 kernel/fork.c:2779 kernel/fork.c:2779)
>   do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
>   ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
>   ? trace_irq_disable (include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:36)
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
>
>
> Without this (or give -R option);
>  Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
>   lockdep_rcu_suspicious (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6877)
>   event_filter_pid_sched_process_fork (kernel/trace/trace_events.c:?)
>   kernel_clone (include/trace/events/sched.h:? include/trace/events/sched.h:396 kernel/fork.c:2664)
>   __x64_sys_clone (kernel/fork.c:2779)
>   do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:?)
>   ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
>   ? trace_irq_disable (include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:36)
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

An oops just happened on some code I'm working on on ARM64 (i.MX8MP) and
decode_stacktrace produced a way more precise output with the patch
applied.

Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> # arm64

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