From 7c7900f89770d7fba96100d8a9e18043a1af3973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:18:12 -0500 Subject: x86/unwind: Add new unwind interface and implementations The x86 stack dump code is a bit of a mess. dump_trace() uses callbacks, and each user of it seems to have slightly different requirements, so there are several slightly different callbacks floating around. Also there are some upcoming features which will need more changes to the stack dump code, including the printing of stack pt_regs, reliable stack detection for live patching, and a DWARF unwinder. Each of those features would at least need more callbacks and/or callback interfaces, resulting in a much bigger mess than what we have today. Before doing all that, we should try to clean things up and replace dump_trace() with something cleaner and more flexible. The new unwinder is a simple state machine which was heavily inspired by a suggestion from Andy Lutomirski: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALCETrUbNTqaM2LRyXGRx=kVLRPeY5A3Pc6k4TtQxF320rUT=w@mail.gmail.com It's also similar to the libunwind API: http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/man/libunwind(3).html Some if its advantages: - Simplicity: no more callback sprawl and less code duplication. - Flexibility: it allows the caller to stop and inspect the stack state at each step in the unwinding process. - Modularity: the unwinder code, console stack dump code, and stack metadata analysis code are all better separated so that changing one of them shouldn't have much of an impact on any of the others. Two implementations are added which conform to the new unwind interface: - The frame pointer unwinder which is used for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y. - The "guess" unwinder which is used for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n. This isn't an "unwinder" per se. All it does is scan the stack for kernel text addresses. But with no frame pointers, guesses are better than nothing in most cases. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nilay Vaish Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6dc2f909c47533d213d0505f0a113e64585bec82.1474045023.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/Makefile') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile index 0503f5bfb18d..45257cf84370 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile @@ -125,6 +125,12 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EFI) += sysfb_efi.o obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += perf_regs.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += tracepoint.o +ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER +obj-y += unwind_frame.o +else +obj-y += unwind_guess.o +endif + ### # 64 bit specific files ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_64),y) -- cgit v1.2.3