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* x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routinesSoeren Sandmann Pedersen2010-11-181-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The various stack tracing routines take a 'bp' argument in which the caller is supposed to provide the base pointer to use, or 0 if doesn't have one. Since bp is garbage whenever CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not defined, this means all callers in principle should either always pass 0, or be conditional on CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. However, there are only really three use cases for stack tracing: (a) Trace the current task, including IRQ stack if any (b) Trace the current task, but skip IRQ stack (c) Trace some other task In all cases, if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not defined, bp should just be 0. If it _is_ defined, then - in case (a) bp should be gotten directly from the CPU's register, so the caller should pass NULL for regs, - in case (b) the caller should should pass the IRQ registers to dump_trace(), - in case (c) bp should be gotten from the top of the task's stack, so the caller should pass NULL for regs. Hence, the bp argument is not necessary because the combination of task and regs is sufficient to determine an appropriate value for bp. This patch introduces a new inline function stack_frame(task, regs) that computes the desired bp. This function is then called from the two versions of dump_stack(). Signed-off-by: Soren Sandmann <ssp@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>, LKML-Reference: <m3oc9rop28.fsf@dhcp-100-3-82.bos.redhat.com>> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* stacktrace: add forward-declaration struct task_structVegard Nossum2009-06-121-0/+2
| | | | | | This is needed if the header is to be free-standing. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* x86: add save_stack_trace_bp() for tracing from a specific stack frameVegard Nossum2009-06-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This will help kmemcheck (and possibly other debugging tools) since we can now simply pass regs->bp to the stack tracer instead of specifying the number of stack frames to skip, which is unreliable if gcc decides to inline functions, etc. Note that this makes the API incomplete for other architectures, but I expect that those can be updated lazily, e.g. when they need it. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* tracing/stack-tracer: introduce CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORTTörök Edwin2008-11-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific. Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86. When other arches implement it, they will have to SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/stack-tracer: fix style issuesTörök Edwin2008-11-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrlTörök Edwin2008-11-231-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature Usage example: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'. To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing). Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* include/linux/stacktrace.h: declare struct task_structAndrew Morton2008-10-031-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | include/linux/stacktrace.h:13: warning: 'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list (This might be a hard error on sparc64, which uses this header and has -Werror) Reported-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: latencytop supportArjan van de Ven2008-01-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* stacktrace: fix header file for !CONFIG_STACKTRACEJohannes Berg2007-07-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The print_stack_trace macro in stacktrace.h has a wrong number of arguments, fix it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* simplify the stacktrace codeChristoph Hellwig2007-05-081-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the stacktrace code: - remove the unused task argument to save_stack_trace, it's always current - remove the all_contexts flag, it's alwasy 0 Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Some preparationary cleanup for stack traceAndi Kleen2006-09-261-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | - Remove unused all_contexts parameter No caller used it - Move skip argument into the structure (needed for followon patches) Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, coreIngo Molnar2006-07-031-0/+20
Framework to generate and save stacktraces quickly, without printing anything to the console. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>