The stack output currently looks like this: 7fffffffffffffff 0000000a00000000 ffffffff81093341 0000000000000046 <0> ffff88003a545fd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00007fffa39769c0 <0> ffff88003e403f58 ffffffff8102fc4c ffff88003e403f58 ffff88003e403f78 The superfluous <0> are caused by recent printk KERN_CONT change. <*> is now ignored in printk unless some text follows the level and even then it still has to be the first in the format message. Note that the log_lvl parameter is now completely ignored in show_stack_log_lvl and the stack is dumped with the default level (like for quite some time already). It behaves the same as the rest of the dump, function traces are dumped in the very same manner. Only Code and maybe some lines are printed with EMERG level. Unfortunately I see no way how to fix this conceptually to have the whole oops/BUG/panic output with the same level, so this removed only the superfluous characters for the time being. Just for illustration: <4>Process kworker/0:0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88003c8a6000, task ffff88003c85c100) <0>Stack: <4> ffffffff818022c0 0000000a00000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000046 <4> ffff88003c8a7fd8 0000000000000001 ffff88003c8a7e58 0000000000000000 <4> ffff88003e503f48 ffffffff8102fc4c ffff88003e503f48 ffff88003e503f68 <0>Call Trace: <0> <IRQ> <4> [<ffffffff8102fc4c>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 ... <0>Code: 00 01 00 00 65 8b 04 25 80 c5 00 00 c7 45 ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1287586131-16222-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h and arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h declare headers of objects that deal with the same topic. Actually most of the files that include stacktrace.h also include dumpstack.h Although dumpstack.h seems more reserved for internals of stack traces, those are quite often needed to define specialized stack trace operations. And perf event arch headers are going to need access to such low level operations anyway. So don't continue to bother with dumpstack.h as it's not anymore about isolated deep internals. v2: fix struct stack_frame definition conflict in sysprof Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
The check that ignores the debug and nmi stack frames is useless now that we have a frame pointer that makes us start at the right place. We don't anymore have to deal with these. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1262235183-5320-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The current print_context_stack helper that does the stack walking job is good for usual stacktraces as it walks through all the stack and reports even addresses that look unreliable, which is nice when we don't have frame pointers for example. But we have users like perf that only require reliable stacktraces, and those may want a more adapted stack walker, so lets make this function a callback in stacktrace_ops that users can tune for their needs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make the initialization more readable, plus tidy up a few small visual details as well. No change in functionality. LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h -- not needed after kref conversion * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related headers and files alone. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
About every callchains recorded with perf record are filled up
including the internal perfcounter nmi frame:
perf_callchain
perf_counter_overflow
intel_pmu_handle_irq
perf_counter_nmi_handler
notifier_call_chain
atomic_notifier_call_chain
notify_die
do_nmi
nmi
We want ignore this frame as it's not interesting for
instrumentation. To solve this, we simply ignore every frames
from nmi context.
New example of "perf report -s sym -c" after this patch:
9.59% [k] search_by_key
4.88%
search_by_key
reiserfs_read_locked_inode
reiserfs_iget
reiserfs_lookup
do_lookup
__link_path_walk
path_walk
do_path_lookup
user_path_at
vfs_fstatat
vfs_lstat
sys_newlstat
system_call_fastpath
__lxstat
0x406fb1
3.19%
search_by_key
search_by_entry_key
reiserfs_find_entry
reiserfs_lookup
do_lookup
__link_path_walk
path_walk
do_path_lookup
user_path_at
vfs_fstatat
vfs_lstat
sys_newlstat
system_call_fastpath
__lxstat
0x406fb1
[...]
For now this patch only solves the problem in x86-64.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: better dumpstack output
I noticed in my crash dumps and even in the stack tracer that a
lot of functions listed in the stack trace are simply
return_to_handler which is ftrace graphs way to insert its own
call into the return of a function.
But we lose out where the actually function was called from.
This patch adds in hooks to the dumpstack mechanism that detects
this and finds the real function to print. Both are printed to
let the user know that a hook is still in place.
This does give a funny side effect in the stack tracer output:
Depth Size Location (80 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 4144 48 save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x4d
1) 4096 128 ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b
2) 3968 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18
3) 3952 384 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
4) 3568 -240 stack_trace_call+0x11d/0x209
5) 3808 144 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
6) 3664 -128 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe
7) 3792 128 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
8) 3664 -32 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod]
As you can see, the real functions are now negative. This is due
to them not being found inside the stack.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup As promised, now that dumpstack_32 and dumpstack_64 have so many bits in common, we should merge the in-sync bits into a common file, to prevent them from diverging again. This patch removes bits which are common between dumpstack_32.c and dumpstack_64.c and places them in a common dumpstack.c which is built for both 32 and 64 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 319 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h | 39 +++++ arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c | 294 ------------------------------------- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 285 ------------------------------------ 5 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 576 deletions(-)
Make i386's die() equal to x86_64's version. Whitespace-only changes on x86_64, to make it equal to i386's version. (user_mode and user_mode_vm are equal on x86_64.) Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>