linux.git/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c, branch v4.15

arm64: stacktrace: avoid listing stacktrace functions in stacktrace

2017-09-14T01:53:16+00:00

The stacktraces always begin as follows:

  [] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x98
  [] save_stack_trace+0x24/0x28
  ...

This is because the stack trace code includes the stack frames for
itself.  This is incorrect behaviour, and also leads to "skip" doing the
wrong thing (which is the number of stack frames to avoid recording.)

Perversely, it does the right thing when passed a non-current thread.
Fix this by ensuring that we have a known constant number of frames
above the main stack trace function, and always skip these.

This was fixed for arch arm by commit 3683f44c42e9 ("ARM: stacktrace:
avoid listing stacktrace functions in stacktrace")

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504078343-28754-1-git-send-email-guptap@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Prakash Gupta 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arm64: add on_accessible_stack()

2017-08-15T17:36:12+00:00

Both unwind_frame() and dump_backtrace() try to check whether a stack
address is sane to access, with very similar logic. Both will need
updating in order to handle overflow stacks.

Factor out this logic into a helper, so that we can avoid further
duplication when we add overflow stacks.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon 
Tested-by: Laura Abbott 
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: James Morse

arm64: unwind: remove sp from struct stackframe

2017-08-09T13:10:29+00:00

The unwind code sets the sp member of struct stackframe to
'frame pointer + 0x10' unconditionally, without regard for whether
doing so produces a legal value. So let's simply remove it now that
we have stopped using it anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Will Deacon

arm64: unwind: reference pt_regs via embedded stack frame

2017-08-09T13:07:13+00:00

As it turns out, the unwind code is slightly broken, and probably has
been for a while. The problem is in the dumping of the exception stack,
which is intended to dump the contents of the pt_regs struct at each
level in the call stack where an exception was taken and routed to a
routine marked as __exception (which means its stack frame is right
below the pt_regs struct on the stack).

'Right below the pt_regs struct' is ill defined, though: the unwind
code assigns 'frame pointer + 0x10' to the .sp member of the stackframe
struct at each level, and dump_backtrace() happily dereferences that as
the pt_regs pointer when encountering an __exception routine. However,
the actual size of the stack frame created by this routine (which could
be one of many __exception routines we have in the kernel) is not known,
and so frame.sp is pretty useless to figure out where struct pt_regs
really is.

So it seems the only way to ensure that we can find our struct pt_regs
when walking the stack frames is to put it at a known fixed offset of
the stack frame pointer that is passed to such __exception routines.
The simplest way to do that is to put it inside pt_regs itself, which is
the main change implemented by this patch. As a bonus, doing this allows
us to get rid of a fair amount of cruft related to walking from one stack
to the other, which is especially nice since we intend to introduce yet
another stack for overflow handling once we add support for vmapped
stacks. It also fixes an inconsistency where we only add a stack frame
pointing to ELR_EL1 if we are executing from the IRQ stack but not when
we are executing from the task stack.

To consistly identify exceptions regs even in the presence of exceptions
taken from entry code, we must check whether the next frame was created
by entry text, rather than whether the current frame was crated by
exception text.

To avoid backtracing using PCs that fall in the idmap, or are controlled
by userspace, we must explcitly zero the FP and LR in startup paths, and
must ensure that the frame embedded in pt_regs is zeroed upon entry from
EL0. To avoid these NULL entries showin in the backtrace, unwind_frame()
is updated to avoid them.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
[Mark: compare current frame against .entry.text, avoid bogus PCs]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Will Deacon

arm64: unwind: disregard frame.sp when validating frame pointer

2017-08-08T15:28:26+00:00

Currently, when unwinding the call stack, we validate the frame pointer
of each frame against frame.sp, whose value is not clearly defined, and
which makes it more difficult to link stack frames together across
different stacks. It is far better to simply check whether the frame
pointer itself points into a valid stack.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Will Deacon

arm64: unwind: avoid percpu indirection for irq stack

2017-08-08T15:28:25+00:00

Our IRQ_STACK_PTR() and on_irq_stack() helpers both take a cpu argument,
used to generate a percpu address. In all cases, they are passed
{raw_,}smp_processor_id(), so this parameter is redundant.

Since {raw_,}smp_processor_id() use a percpu variable internally, this
approach means we generate a percpu offset to find the current cpu, then
use this to index an array of percpu offsets, which we then use to find
the current CPU's IRQ stack pointer. Thus, most of the work is
redundant.

Instead, we can consistently use raw_cpu_ptr() to generate the CPU's
irq_stack pointer by simply adding the percpu offset to the irq_stack
address, which is simpler in both respects.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Will Deacon

arm64: Export save_stack_trace_tsk()

2017-06-15T10:52:35+00:00

The kernel watchdog is a great debugging tool for finding tasks that
consume a disproportionate amount of CPU time in contiguous chunks. One
can imagine building a similar watchdog for arbitrary driver threads
using save_stack_trace_tsk() and print_stack_trace(). However, this is
not viable for dynamically loaded driver modules on ARM platforms
because save_stack_trace_tsk() is not exported for those architectures.
Export save_stack_trace_tsk() for the ARM64 architecture to align with
x86 and support various debugging use cases such as arbitrary driver
thread watchdog timers.

Signed-off-by: Dustin Brown 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

arm64: prep stack walkers for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

2016-11-11T18:25:44+00:00

When CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK is selected, task stacks may be freed
before a task is destroyed. To account for this, the stacks are
refcounted, and when manipulating the stack of another task, it is
necessary to get/put the stack to ensure it isn't freed and/or re-used
while we do so.

This patch reworks the arm64 stack walking code to account for this.
When CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK is not selected these perform no
refcounting, and this should only be a structural change that does not
affect behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Tested-by: Laura Abbott 
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas