[PATCH] ARM: perf: Fix stacktraces for tracepoint events in THUMB2 kernels

Tomislav Novak tnovak at fb.com
Tue Sep 20 16:07:28 PDT 2022


Store the frame address where arm_get_current_stackframe() looks for it
(ARM_r7 instead of ARM_fp if CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y). Otherwise frame->fp
gets set to 0, causing unwind_frame() to fail.

  # bpftrace -e 't:sched:sched_switch { @[kstack] = count(); exit(); }'
  Attaching 1 probe...
  @[
      __schedule+1059
  ]: 1

A typical first unwind instruction is 0x97 (SP = R7), so after executing
it SP ends up being 0 and -URC_FAILURE is returned.

  unwind_frame(pc = ac9da7d7 lr = 00000000 sp = c69bdda0 fp = 00000000)
  unwind_find_idx(ac9da7d7)
  unwind_exec_insn: insn = 00000097
  unwind_exec_insn: fp = 00000000 sp = 00000000 lr = 00000000 pc = 00000000

With this patch:

  # bpftrace -e 't:sched:sched_switch { @[kstack] = count(); exit(); }'
  Attaching 1 probe...
  @[
      __schedule+1059
      __schedule+1059
      schedule+79
      schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+163
      schedule_hrtimeout_range+17
      ep_poll+471
      SyS_epoll_wait+111
      sys_epoll_pwait+231
      __ret_fast_syscall+1
  ]: 1

Signed-off-by: Tomislav Novak <tnovak at fb.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 4f9dec489931..c5d27140834e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ extern unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs);
 
 #define perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(regs, __ip) { \
 	(regs)->ARM_pc = (__ip); \
-	(regs)->ARM_fp = (unsigned long) __builtin_frame_address(0); \
+	frame_pointer((regs)) = (unsigned long) __builtin_frame_address(0); \
 	(regs)->ARM_sp = current_stack_pointer; \
 	(regs)->ARM_cpsr = SVC_MODE; \
 }
-- 
2.30.2




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