[PATCH 2/2] arm64: stacktrace: factor out kunwind_stack_walk()

Puranjay Mohan puranjay12 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 01:17:13 PST 2023


Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> writes:

> Currently arm64 uses the generic arch_stack_walk() interface for all
> stack walking code. This only passes a PC value and cookie to the unwind
> callback, whereas we'd like to pass some additional information in some
> cases. For example, the BPF exception unwinder wants the FP, for
> reliable stacktrace we'll want to perform additional checks on other
> portions of unwind state, and we'd like to expand the information
> printed by dump_backtrace() to include provenance and reliability
> information.
>
> As preparation for all of the above, this patch factors the core unwind
> logic out of arch_stack_walk() and into a new kunwind_stack_walk()
> function which provides all of the unwind state to a callback function.
> The existing arch_stack_walk() interface is implemented atop this.
>
> The kunwind_stack_walk() function is intended to be a private
> implementation detail of unwinders in stacktrace.c, and not something to
> be exported generally to kernel code. It is __always_inline'd into its
> caller so that neither it or its caller appear in stactraces (which is
> the existing/required behavior for arch_stack_walk() and friends) and so
> that the compiler can optimize away some of the indirection.
>
> There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
>

Thanks for helping with this.

Reviewed-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12 at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Puranjay

> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh at google.com>
> Cc: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka at linux.microsoft.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index aafc89192787a..7f88028a00c02 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -154,8 +154,10 @@ kunwind_next(struct kunwind_state *state)
>  	return kunwind_recover_return_address(state);
>  }
>  
> +typedef bool (*kunwind_consume_fn)(const struct kunwind_state *state, void *cookie);
> +
>  static __always_inline void
> -do_kunwind(struct kunwind_state *state, stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
> +do_kunwind(struct kunwind_state *state, kunwind_consume_fn consume_state,
>  	   void *cookie)
>  {
>  	if (kunwind_recover_return_address(state))
> @@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ do_kunwind(struct kunwind_state *state, stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
>  	while (1) {
>  		int ret;
>  
> -		if (!consume_entry(cookie, state->common.pc))
> +		if (!consume_state(state, cookie))
>  			break;
>  		ret = kunwind_next(state);
>  		if (ret < 0)
> @@ -201,9 +203,10 @@ do_kunwind(struct kunwind_state *state, stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
>  			: stackinfo_get_unknown();		\
>  	})
>  
> -noinline noinstr void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
> -			      void *cookie, struct task_struct *task,
> -			      struct pt_regs *regs)
> +static __always_inline void
> +kunwind_stack_walk(kunwind_consume_fn consume_state,
> +		   void *cookie, struct task_struct *task,
> +		   struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
>  	struct stack_info stacks[] = {
>  		stackinfo_get_task(task),
> @@ -236,7 +239,31 @@ noinline noinstr void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
>  		kunwind_init_from_task(&state, task);
>  	}
>  
> -	do_kunwind(&state, consume_entry, cookie);
> +	do_kunwind(&state, consume_state, cookie);
> +}
> +
> +struct kunwind_consume_entry_data {
> +	stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry;
> +	void *cookie;
> +};
> +
> +static bool
> +arch_kunwind_consume_entry(const struct kunwind_state *state, void *cookie)
> +{
> +	struct kunwind_consume_entry_data *data = cookie;
> +	return data->consume_entry(data->cookie, state->common.pc);
> +}
> +
> +noinline noinstr void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
> +			      void *cookie, struct task_struct *task,
> +			      struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +	struct kunwind_consume_entry_data data = {
> +		.consume_entry = consume_entry,
> +		.cookie = cookie,
> +	};
> +
> +	kunwind_stack_walk(arch_kunwind_consume_entry, &data, task, regs);
>  }
>  
>  static bool dump_backtrace_entry(void *arg, unsigned long where)
> -- 
> 2.30.2



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