linux/arch/x86
Frederic Weisbecker af2d8289f5 x86: Fixup wrong irq frame link in stacktraces
When we enter in irq, two things can happen to preserve the link
to the previous frame pointer:

- If we were in an irq already, we don't switch to the irq stack
  as we are inside. We just need to save the previous frame
  pointer and to link the new one to the previous.

- Otherwise we need another level of indirection. We enter the irq with
  the previous stack. We save the previous bp inside and make bp
  pointing to its saved address. Then we switch to the irq stack and
  push bp another time but to the new stack. This makes two levels to
  dereference instead of one.

In the second case, the current stacktrace code omits the second level
and loses the frame pointer accuracy. The stack that follows will then
be considered as unreliable.

Handling that makes the perf callchain happier.
Before:

43.94%  [k] _raw_read_lock
            |
            --- _read_lock
               |
               |--60.53%-- send_sigio
               |          __kill_fasync
               |          kill_fasync
               |          evdev_pass_event
               |          evdev_event
               |          input_pass_event
               |          input_handle_event
               |          input_event
               |          synaptics_process_byte
               |          psmouse_handle_byte
               |          psmouse_interrupt
               |          serio_interrupt
               |          i8042_interrupt
               |          handle_IRQ_event
               |          handle_edge_irq
               |          handle_irq
               |          __irqentry_text_start
               |          ret_from_intr
               |          |
               |          |--30.43%-- __select
               |          |
               |          |--17.39%-- 0x454f15
               |          |
               |          |--13.04%-- __read
               |          |
               |          |--13.04%-- vread_hpet
               |          |
               |          |--13.04%-- _xcb_lock_io
               |          |
               |           --13.04%-- 0x7f630878ce8

After:

    50.00%  [k] _raw_read_lock
            |
            --- _read_lock
               |
               |--98.97%-- send_sigio
               |          __kill_fasync
               |          kill_fasync
               |          evdev_pass_event
               |          evdev_event
               |          input_pass_event
               |          input_handle_event
               |          input_event
               |          |
               |          |--96.88%-- synaptics_process_byte
               |          |          psmouse_handle_byte
               |          |          psmouse_interrupt
               |          |          serio_interrupt
               |          |          i8042_interrupt
               |          |          handle_IRQ_event
               |          |          handle_edge_irq
               |          |          handle_irq
               |          |          __irqentry_text_start
               |          |          ret_from_intr
               |          |          |
               |          |          |--39.78%-- __const_udelay
               |          |          |          |
               |          |          |          |--91.89%-- ath5k_hw_register_timeout
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_hw_reset
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_reset
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_config
               |          |          |          |          ieee80211_hw_config
               |          |          |          |          |
               |          |          |          |          |--88.24%-- ieee80211_scan_work
               |          |          |          |          |          worker_thread
               |          |          |          |          |          kthread
               |          |          |          |          |          child_rip
               |          |          |          |          |
               |          |          |          |           --11.76%-- ieee80211_scan_completed
               |          |          |          |                     ieee80211_scan_work
               |          |          |          |                     worker_thread
               |          |          |          |                     kthread
               |          |          |          |                     child_rip
               |          |          |          |
               |          |          |           --8.11%-- ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
               |          |          |                     ath5k_hw_reset
               |          |          |                     ath5k_reset
               |          |          |                     ath5k_config

Note: This does not only affect perf events but also x86-64
stacktraces. They were considered as unreliable once we quit
the irq stack frame.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-06 08:27:24 +01:00
..
boot x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirk 2009-10-16 07:18:46 +02:00
configs tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints 2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - Fix irq_fpu_usable usage 2009-10-20 16:20:47 +09:00
ia32 x86-64: Fix register leak in 32-bit syscall audting 2009-10-26 16:23:26 +01:00
include/asm Merge branch 'perf/mce' into perf/core 2009-12-03 20:11:06 +01:00
kernel x86: Fixup wrong irq frame link in stacktraces 2009-12-06 08:27:24 +01:00
kvm Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core 2009-11-21 14:07:23 +01:00
lguest lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place. 2009-09-23 22:26:44 +09:30
lib x86: Gitignore: arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c 2009-11-04 13:11:28 +01:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core 2009-11-21 14:07:23 +01:00
oprofile perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
pci const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
power hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'perf/probes' into perf/core 2009-12-03 20:11:38 +01:00
vdso kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption 2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
video
xen xen: mask extended topology info in cpuid 2009-11-03 11:09:12 -08:00
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core 2009-11-21 14:07:23 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Side-step lguest problem by only building cmpxchg8b_emu for pre-Pentium 2009-10-26 12:33:02 +01:00
Kconfig.debug x86: X86 instruction decoder build-time selftest 2009-08-27 00:35:56 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes 2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architecture 2009-08-23 11:20:02 +02:00