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| author |   Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2008-12-02 23:50:04 -0500 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-03 08:56:25 +0100 |
| commit | 7ee991fbc6f947e9b04f29c9c6c1d057d0671a16 (patch) | |
| tree | 4de5df551caa09ff6067311dba040e37f0f2316c /arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | |
| parent | ring-buffer: change "page" variable names to "bpage" (diff) | |
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ftrace: print real return in dumpstack for function graph
Impact: better dumpstack output
I noticed in my crash dumps and even in the stack tracer that a
lot of functions listed in the stack trace are simply
return_to_handler which is ftrace graphs way to insert its own
call into the return of a function.
But we lose out where the actually function was called from.
This patch adds in hooks to the dumpstack mechanism that detects
this and finds the real function to print. Both are printed to
let the user know that a hook is still in place.
This does give a funny side effect in the stack tracer output:
Depth Size Location (80 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 4144 48 save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x4d
1) 4096 128 ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b
2) 3968 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18
3) 3952 384 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
4) 3568 -240 stack_trace_call+0x11d/0x209
5) 3808 144 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
6) 3664 -128 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe
7) 3792 128 return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
8) 3664 -32 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod]
As you can see, the real functions are now negative. This is due
to them not being found inside the stack.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c index 33ff10287a5d..c302d0707048 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long *irqstack_end = (unsigned long *)cpu_pda(cpu)->irqstackptr; unsigned used = 0; struct thread_info *tinfo; + int graph = 0; if (!task) task = current; @@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, break; bp = print_context_stack(tinfo, stack, bp, ops, - data, estack_end); + data, estack_end, &graph); ops->stack(data, "<EOE>"); /* * We link to the next stack via the @@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, if (ops->stack(data, "IRQ") < 0) break; bp = print_context_stack(tinfo, stack, bp, - ops, data, irqstack_end); + ops, data, irqstack_end, &graph); /* * We link to the next stack (which would be * the process stack normally) the last @@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, /* * This handles the process stack: */ - bp = print_context_stack(tinfo, stack, bp, ops, data, NULL); + bp = print_context_stack(tinfo, stack, bp, ops, data, NULL, &graph); put_cpu(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace); |