Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] riscv: Add reliable stack unwinding for livepatch

[Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]

Thus wrote Shuai Xue (xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com):

> Hi,

> This is v6 of the RISC-V reliable stack unwinding series for livepatch.
> Wang Han has left our team, so I am taking over this series from now on.

> The series adds explicit frame-record metadata, preserves the frame
> pointer through dynamic ftrace, and replaces the open-coded stack walker
> with a conservative frame-pointer based unwinder. It then enables the
> RISC-V livepatch capability and adds the syscall-wrapper selftest prefix.

> Changes since v5:
> * Rebase onto the current riscv/for-next; no functional changes.
> * Fold in the tags collected from the v5 thread:
>   - Reviewed-by: Shuai Xue on 2/7, 3/7, 4/7 and 6/7
>   - Acked-by: Miroslav Benes on 7/7
> * Add my sign-off as the new sender.

> Since the patches are otherwise identical to v5, the v5 validation
> results still apply. For reference, from the v5 cover letter:
> * Built Linux 7.2.0-rc6 with riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc 15.2.0
>   and binutils 2.46.
> * Standard livepatch configuration built successfully, including
>   Image, vmlinux, modules, compile_commands.json and GDB scripts.
> * CONFIG_IRQ_STACKS=n variant linked successfully with GCC.
> * QEMU 8.2.2, 1 CPU: livepatch selftests PASS: 7, SKIP: 1,
>   FAIL: 0; ftrace function graph 3 passed, 0 failed, 3 unsupported.
> * QEMU 8.2.2, 4 CPUs: livepatch selftests PASS: 7, SKIP: 1,
>   FAIL: 0; ftrace function graph 3 passed, 0 failed, 3 unsupported.
> * No BUG, WARNING, Oops, panic, unreliable stack or Call Trace found
>   by the validation log scans. Expected negative livepatch errors are
>   part of the selftests.

> v5 was posted in early August and has been quiet since then. I would
> appreciate it if the series could be considered for the upcoming merge
> window. Happy to address any remaining feedback.

> Base:
> riscv/for-next 77ae27fd98f3 ("Merge tag 'printk-for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux")

> Previous versions:
> v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260804103626.2803112-1-wanghan@linux.alibaba.com
> v4 RESEND: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260629072713.3273743-1-wanghan@linux.alibaba.com
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.194d76e3a15b.v3.riscv-livepatch.wanghan@linux.alibaba.com
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528082310.1994388-1-wanghan@linux.alibaba.com
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260527123530.2593918-1-wanghan@linux.alibaba.com

> Assisted-by: Qoder:Qwen-3.8-MAX-Preview

Thanks for these patches.

I tried them on a standard rv64 qemu and on a rv64 cheri system
(cheri-linux.org). The latter needed some minor tweaks, but in
both cases, I could get livepatch to work.

Reviewed-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Tested-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>