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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-12-17 05:40:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-12-17 10:42:52 +0100 |
| commit | 06d65bda75341485d32f33da474b0664819ad497 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b5edc58b9c5a6a9b5cff4b5886f54929b12863a /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | 61c1917f47f73c968e92d04d15370b1dc3ec4592 (diff) | |
| download | linux-06d65bda75341485d32f33da474b0664819ad497.tar.gz | |
perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker
It's just wasteful for stacktrace users like perf to walk through every entries on the stack whereas these only accept reliable ones, ie: that the frame pointer validates. Since perf requires pure reliable stacktraces, it needs a stack walker based on frame pointers-only to optimize the stacktrace processing. This might solve some near-lockup scenarios that can be triggered by call-graph tracing timer events. 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: <1261024834-5336-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ v2: fix for modular builds and small detail tidyup ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 28 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c index d3802ee5a416..c223b7e895d9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c @@ -2336,7 +2336,7 @@ static const struct stacktrace_ops backtrace_ops = { .warning_symbol = backtrace_warning_symbol, .stack = backtrace_stack, .address = backtrace_address, - .walk_stack = print_context_stack, + .walk_stack = print_context_stack_bp, }; #include "../dumpstack.h" diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c index 8aaa119b7cad..c56bc2873030 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c @@ -109,6 +109,30 @@ print_context_stack(struct thread_info *tinfo, } return bp; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(print_context_stack); + +unsigned long +print_context_stack_bp(struct thread_info *tinfo, + unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp, + const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data, + unsigned long *end, int *graph) +{ + struct stack_frame *frame = (struct stack_frame *)bp; + unsigned long *ret_addr = &frame->return_address; + + while (valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, ret_addr, sizeof(*ret_addr), end)) { + unsigned long addr = *ret_addr; + + if (__kernel_text_address(addr)) { + ops->address(data, addr, 1); + frame = frame->next_frame; + ret_addr = &frame->return_address; + print_ftrace_graph_addr(addr, data, ops, tinfo, graph); + } + } + return (unsigned long)frame; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(print_context_stack_bp); static void @@ -143,8 +167,8 @@ static void print_trace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr, int reliable) static const struct stacktrace_ops print_trace_ops = { .warning = print_trace_warning, .warning_symbol = print_trace_warning_symbol, - .stack = print_trace_stack, - .address = print_trace_address, + .stack = print_trace_stack, + .address = print_trace_address, .walk_stack = print_context_stack, }; |