From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:48:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <169061688928.236508.2659343767835003491.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230621051349.759567-1-naveen@kernel.org>
On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:43:49 +0530, Naveen N Rao wrote:
> With ppc64 -mprofile-kernel and ppc32 -pg, profiling instructions to
> call into ftrace are emitted right at function entry. The instruction
> sequence used is minimal to reduce overhead. Crucially, a stackframe is
> not created for the function being traced. This breaks stack unwinding
> since the function being traced does not have a stackframe for itself.
> As such, it never shows up in the backtrace:
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/fixes.
[1/1] powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/41a506ef71eb38d94fe133f565c87c3e06ccc072
cheers
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2023-06-21 5:13 [PATCH] powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind Naveen N Rao
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