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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds d1526e2cda Remove stack unwinder for now
It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is
apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed.  We can put it back when
it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse.

In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-15 08:47:51 -08:00
Jan Beulich 359ad0d401 [PATCH] unwinder: more sanity checks in Dwarf2 unwinder
Tighten the requirements on both input to and output from the Dwarf2
unwinder.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Andi Kleen b89ebd0b0a [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
Fix

linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: In function 'dump_trace':
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:275: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

with allnoconfig

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Jan Beulich adf1423698 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.

This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information.  Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.

For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem.  The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.

It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.

This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame

[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Jan Beulich ea424055b7 [PATCH] x86: Make backtracer fallback logic more bullet-proof
The unwinder fallback logic still had potential for falling through to
the legacy stack trace code without printing an indication (at once
serving as a separator) of this.

Further, the stack pointer retrieval for the fallback should be as
restrictive as possible (in order to avoid having the legacy stack
tracer try to access invalid memory). The patch tightens that, but
this could certainly be further improved.

Also making the call_trace command line option now conditional upon
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND (as it's meaningless otherwise).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-30 16:05:15 -07:00
Jan Beulich c33bd9aac0 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: fall back to old-style call trace if no unwinding
If no unwinding is possible at all for a certain exception instance,
fall back to the old style call trace instead of not showing any trace
at all.

Also, allow setting the stack trace mode at the command line.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:18 -07:00
Jan Beulich b538ed278b [PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace support (x86-64)
These are the x86_64-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. The
only restriction with this is that it currently cannot unwind across the
interrupt->normal stack boundary, as that transition is lacking proper
annotation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:17 -07:00