[RESEND v3] arm64: Add USER_STACKTRACE support

[chenqiwu]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 02:09:21PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:22:29AM +0800, chenqiwu wrote:
> > Currently, userstacktrace is unsupported for ftrace and uprobe
> > tracers on arm64. This patch uses the perf_callchain_user() code
> > as blueprint to implement the arch_stack_walk_user() which add
> > userstacktrace support on arm64.
> > Meanwhile, we can use arch_stack_walk_user() to simplify the
> > implementation of perf_callchain_user().
> > This patch is tested pass with ftrace, uprobe and perf tracers
> > profiling userstacktrace cases.
> > 
> > changes in v3:
> >   - update perf_callchain_user() to use arch_stack_walk_user()
> >     and delete the redundant code as Mark's suggestion in v2.
> >   - update the commit message.
> > 
> > Tested-by: chenqiwu <qiwu.chen at transsion.com>
> > Signed-off-by: chenqiwu <qiwu.chen at transsion.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/Kconfig                 |   1 +
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 118 +---------------------------
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c     | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
> 
> This mostly looks good to me, with one potential issue:
> 
> > @@ -107,35 +25,7 @@ void perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	perf_callchain_store(entry, regs->pc);
> > -
> > -	if (!compat_user_mode(regs)) {
> > -		/* AARCH64 mode */
> > -		struct frame_tail __user *tail;
> > -
> > -		tail = (struct frame_tail __user *)regs->regs[29];
> > -
> > -		while (entry->nr < entry->max_stack &&
> 
> The old code is checking entry->nr against entry->max_stack here...
> 
> > +void arch_stack_walk_user(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry, void *cookie,
> > +					const struct pt_regs *regs)
> > +{
> > +	if (!consume_entry(cookie, regs->pc))
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	if (!compat_user_mode(regs)) {
> > +		/* AARCH64 mode */
> > +		struct frame_tail __user *tail;
> > +
> > +		tail = (struct frame_tail __user *)regs->regs[29];
> > +		while (tail && !((unsigned long)tail & 0x7))
> > +			tail = unwind_user_frame(tail, cookie, consume_entry);
> 
> ... but it looks like you've dropped that with the rework. Why is that ok?
> 
It's no necessary to check entry->nr in arch_stack_walk_user(), because the caller function
stack_trace_save_user() registers the consume_entry callback for saving user stack traces into
a storage array, checking entry->nr against entry->max_stack is put into stack_trace_consume_entry().
Qiwu