Now that the DWARF unwinder is being used to provide perf callstacks
unwinding speed is an issue. It is no longer being used in exceptional
circumstances where we don't care about runtime performance, e.g. when
panicing, so it makes sense improve performance is possible.
With this patch I saw a 42% improvement in unwind time when calling
return_address(1). Greater improvements will be seen as the number of
levels unwound increases as each unwind is now cheaper.
Note that insertion time has doubled but that's just the price we pay
for keeping the trees balanced. However, this is a one-time cost for
kernel boot/module load and so the improvements in lookup time dominate
the extra time we spend keeping the trees balanced.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This enables us to build the dwarf unwinder both with modules enabled and
disabled in addition to reducing code size in the latter case. The
helpers are also consolidated, and modified to resemble the BUG module
helpers.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This splits out the unwinder implementation and adds a new
return_address() abstraction modelled after the ARM code. The DWARF
unwinder is tied in to this, returning NULL otherwise in the case of
being unable to support arbitrary depths.
This enables us to get correct behaviour with the unwinder enabled,
as well as disabling the arbitrary depth support when frame pointers are
enabled, as arbitrary depths with __builtin_return_address() are not
supported regardless.
With this abstraction it's also possible to layer on a simplified
implementation with frame pointers in the event that the unwinder isn't
enabled, although this is left as a future exercise.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
If we broke out of the while (1) loop because the return address of
"frame" was zero, then "frame" needs to be free'd before we return.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Pass a module's .eh_frame section to the DWARF unwinder at module load
time so that the section's FDEs and CIEs can be registered with the
DWARF unwinder. This allows us to unwind the stack through module code
when generating backtraces.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Allow a DWARF register to have an undefined value. When applied to the
DWARF return address register this lets lets us label a function as
having no direct caller, e.g. kernel_thread_helper().
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
The handling of DW_CFA_val_offset ops was incorrectly using the
DWARF_REG_OFFSET flag but the register's value cannot be calculated
using the DWARF_REG_OFFSET method. Create a new flag to indicate that a
different method must be used to calculate the register's value even
though there is no implementation for DWARF_VAL_OFFSET yet; it's mainly
just a place holder.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Plug a memory leak in dwarf_unwinder_dump() where we didn't free the
memory that we had previously allocated for the DWARF frames and DWARF
registers.
Now is also a opportune time to implement our own mempool and kmem
cache. It's a good idea to have a certain number of frame and register
objects in reserve at all times, so that we are guaranteed to have our
allocation satisfied even when memory is scarce. Since we have pools to
allocate from we can implement the registers for each frame as a linked
list as opposed to a sparsely populated array. Whilst it's true that the
lookup time for a linked list is larger than for arrays, there's only
usually a maximum of 8 registers per frame. So the overhead isn't that
much of a concern.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
This moves the initialization over to an early_initcall(). This fixes up
some lockdep interaction issues. At the same time, kill off some
superfluous locking in the init path.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Also, remove the "fix" to DW_CFA_def_cfa_register where we reset the
frame's cfa_offset to 0. This action is incorrect when handling
DW_CFA_def_cfa_register as the DWARF spec specifically states that the
previous contents of cfa_offset should be used with the new
register. The reason that I thought cfa_offset should be reset to 0 was
because it was being assigned a bogus value prior to executing the
DW_CFA_def_cfa_register op. It turns out that the bogus cfa_offset value
came from interpreting .cfi_escape pseudo-ops (those used by the GNU
extensions) as CFA_DW_def_cfa ops.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Trying to figure out the best value for DWARF_ARCH_UNWIND_OFFSET is
tricky at best. Various things can change the size (and offset from the
beginning of the function) of the prologue. Notably, turning on ftrace
adds calls to mcount at the beginning of functions, thereby pushing the
prologue further into the function.
So replace DWARF_ARCH_UNWIND_OFFSET with some code that continues to
execute CFA instructions until the value of return address register is
defined. This is safe to do because we know that the return address must
have been pushed onto the frame before our first function call; we just
can't figure out where at compile-time.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This is a first cut at a generic DWARF unwinder for the kernel. It's
still lacking DWARF64 support and the DWARF expression support hasn't
been tested very well but it is generating proper stacktraces on SH for
WARN_ON() and NULL dereferences.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Matt Fleming
Paul Mundt