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Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: Mark function graph handler function as unreliable
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 06:06:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-6f727b84e23421721025f4eb1b4f6cea1d4d723a@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8af15749c7d632d3e7f815995831d5b7f82950d.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com>

Commit-ID:  6f727b84e23421721025f4eb1b4f6cea1d4d723a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/6f727b84e23421721025f4eb1b4f6cea1d4d723a
Author:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:53:01 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:15:15 +0200

x86/dumpstack/ftrace: Mark function graph handler function as unreliable

When function graph tracing is enabled for a function, its return
address on the stack is replaced with the address of an ftrace handler
(return_to_handler).

Currently 'return_to_handler' can be reported as reliable.  That's not
ideal, and can actually be misleading.  When saving or dumping the
stack, you normally only care about what led up to that point (the call
path), rather than what will happen in the future (the return path).

That's especially true in the non-oops stack trace case, which isn't
used for debugging.  For example, in a perf profiling operation,
reporting return_to_handler() in the trace would just be confusing.

And in the oops case, where debugging is important, "unreliable" is also
more appropriate there because it serves as a hint that graph tracing
was involved, instead of trying to imply that return_to_handler() was
the real caller.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f8af15749c7d632d3e7f815995831d5b7f82950d.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 9bf3d02..6aad8d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -87,12 +87,21 @@ print_context_stack(struct task_struct *task,
 				bp = (unsigned long) frame;
 			}
 
-			ops->address(data, addr, reliable);
-
+			/*
+			 * When function graph tracing is enabled for a
+			 * function, its return address on the stack is
+			 * replaced with the address of an ftrace handler
+			 * (return_to_handler).  In that case, before printing
+			 * the "real" address, we want to print the handler
+			 * address as an "unreliable" hint that function graph
+			 * tracing was involved.
+			 */
 			real_addr = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(task, graph, addr,
 							  stack);
 			if (real_addr != addr)
-				ops->address(data, real_addr, 1);
+				ops->address(data, addr, 0);
+
+			ops->address(data, real_addr, reliable);
 		}
 		stack++;
 	}
@@ -116,12 +125,11 @@ print_context_stack_bp(struct task_struct *task,
 		if (!__kernel_text_address(addr))
 			break;
 
-		if (ops->address(data, addr, 1))
-			break;
-
 		real_addr = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(task, graph, addr, retp);
-		if (real_addr != addr)
-			ops->address(data, real_addr, 1);
+		if (real_addr != addr && ops->address(data, addr, 0))
+			break;
+		if (ops->address(data, real_addr, 1))
+			break;
 
 		frame = frame->next_frame;
 		retp = &frame->return_address;

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-24 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-19 11:52 [PATCH 0/8] ftrace/x86: function_graph stack dump fixes Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 1/8] ftrace: remove CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST from config Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:03   ` [tip:x86/asm] ftrace: Remove " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 2/8] ftrace: only allocate the ret_stack 'fp' field when needed Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:03   ` [tip:x86/asm] ftrace: Only " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 3/8] ftrace: add return address pointer to ftrace_ret_stack Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:04   ` [tip:x86/asm] ftrace: Add " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 4/8] ftrace: add ftrace_graph_ret_addr() stack unwinding helpers Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:04   ` [tip:x86/asm] ftrace: Add " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: convert dump_trace() callbacks to use ftrace_graph_ret_addr() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:05   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: Convert " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] ftrace/x86: implement HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:05   ` [tip:x86/asm] ftrace/x86: Implement HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-19 11:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: mark function graph handler function as unreliable Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:06   ` tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2016-08-19 11:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: don't print unreliable addresses in print_context_stack_bp() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-24 13:06   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: Don't " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-23 14:27 ` [PATCH 0/8] ftrace/x86: function_graph stack dump fixes Steven Rostedt
2016-08-24 10:13   ` Ingo Molnar

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