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>
Move the irqstackptr variable from the PDA to per-cpu. Make the
stacks themselves per-cpu, removing some specific allocation code.
Add a seperate flag (is_boot_cpu) to simplify the per-cpu boot
adjustments.
tj: * sprinkle some underbars around.
* irq_stack_ptr is not used till traps_init(), no reason to
initialize it early. On SMP, just leaving it NULL till proper
initialization in setup_per_cpu_areas() works. Dropped
is_boot_cpu and early irq_stack_ptr initialization.
* do DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[IRQ_STACK_SIZE], irq_stack)
instead of (char, irq_stack[IRQ_STACK_SIZE]).
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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>
Use oops_begin and oops_end in die_nmi.
Whitespace-only changes on x86_64, to make it equal to i386's
version.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Always call oops_exit from oops_end, even if signr==0.
Also, move add_taint(TAINT_DIE) from __die to oops_end
on x86_64 and interchange two lines to make oops_end
more similar to the i386-version.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
oops_end is preceded by either a call to __die, or a conditional
call to crash_kexec. Move the conditional call to crash_kexec
from the end of __die to the start of oops_end and remove
the superfluous call to crash_kexec in die_nmi.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change oops_end such that signr=0 signals that do_exit
is not to be called.
Currently, each use of __die is soon followed by a call
to oops_end and 'regs' is set to NULL if oops_end is expected
not to call do_exit. Change all such pairs to set signr=0
instead. On x86_64 oops_end is used 'bare' in die_nmi; use
signr=0 instead of regs=NULL there, too.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Print the name of the last-accessed sysfs file when we oops, to help track
down oopses which occur in sysfs store/read handlers. Because these oopses
tend to not leave any trace of the offending code in the stack traces.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
After "dumpstack: x86: various small unification steps", the
assembler gives the following compile error. The error is in
dumpstack_64.c.
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:720: Error: Incorrect register `%rbx' used with `l' suffix
{standard input}:1340: Error: Incorrect register `%r12' used with `l' suffix
Indeed the suffix in get_bp() was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- define STACKSLOTS_PER_LINE and use it
- define get_bp macro to hide the %%ebp/%%rbp difference
- i386: check task==NULL in dump_trace, like x86_64
- i386: show_trace(NULL, ...) uses current automatically
- x86_64: use [#%d] for die_counter, like i386
- whitespace and comments
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- x86: Write log_lvl strings if available
- start raw stack dumps on new line
- i386: Remove extra indentation for raw stack dumps
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- i386 and x86_64: always printk the 'data' parameter
- i386: announce stack switch (irq -> normal)
- i386: check if there is a stack switch before announcing it
There is a warning that 'context' might come out corrupt in early
boot. If this is true it should be fixed, not worked around.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- Add "end" parameter to valid_stack_ptr and print_context_stack
- use sizeof(long) as the size of a word on the stack
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- x86_64: use %p to print an address
- make i386-version the same as the above
The result should be the same on x86_64; on i386 the
output only changes if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is turned off,
in which case the address is printed twice.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The dumpstack code is logically quite independent from the
hardware traps. Split it out into its own file.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
