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From: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: <peterz@infradead.org>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <acme@kernel.org>,
	<namhyung@kernel.org>, <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	<alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>, <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	<irogers@google.com>, <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	<kan.liang@linux.intel.com>, <will@kernel.org>, <arnd@arndb.de>,
	<afd@ti.com>, <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	<akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	<eric.devolder@oracle.com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: stacktrace: Add USER_STACKTRACE support
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:45:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7b9116e-bddc-2ab2-06eb-6191612fe16b@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZqzHgFB2t+SWy5o9@shell.armlinux.org.uk>



On 2024/8/2 19:48, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:15:32AM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> Currently, userstacktrace is unsupported for ARM. So use the
>> perf_callchain_user() code as blueprint to implement the
>> arch_stack_walk_user() which add userstacktrace support on ARM.
>> Meanwhile, we can use arch_stack_walk_user() to simplify the implementation
>> of perf_callchain_user().
>>
>> A ftrace test case is shown as below:
>> 	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
>> 	# echo 1 > options/userstacktrace
>> 	# echo 1 > options/sym-userobj
>> 	# echo 1 > events/sched/sched_process_fork/enable
>> 	# cat trace
>>
>> 	......
>> 	              sh-100     [000] .....    51.779261: sched_process_fork: comm=sh pid=100 child_comm=sh child_pid=108
>> 	              sh-100     [000] .....    51.779285: <user stack trace>
>> 	 => /lib/libc.so.6[+0xb3c8c]
>> 	 => /bin/busybox[+0xffb901f1]
>>
>> Also a simple perf test is ok as below:
>> 	# perf record -e cpu-clock --call-graph fp top
>> 	# perf report --call-graph
>>
>> 	.....
>> 	  [[31m  65.00%[[m     0.00%  top      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __ret_fast_syscall
>>
>> 	            |
>> 	            ---__ret_fast_syscall
>> 	               |
>> 	               |--[[31m30.00%[[m--__se_sys_getdents64
>> 	               |          iterate_dir
>> 	               |          |
>> 	               |          |--[[31m25.00%[[m--proc_pid_readdir
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
> 
> Do you have a use case for this feature?

To my knowledge, user stack trace is used in both uprobes and ftrace.

> 
> Given that userspace is free to do whatever it likes with stack frames,
> I think this is going to be hit and miss whether it works.

To be honest, I referred to the implementation of ARM64. Does anyone
have suggestions for improvements or modifications?

> 

  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-12  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-30  2:15 Jinjie Ruan
2024-08-02 11:48 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2024-08-12  6:45   ` Jinjie Ruan [this message]
2024-08-12 15:02     ` Russell King (Oracle)

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