From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, bristot@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
paul.walmsley@sifive.com, palmer@dabbelt.com, hca@linux.ibm.com,
gor@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] arch: __get_wchan() || ARCH_STACKWALK
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:13:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202110220910.0D3C298F73@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211022152104.487919043@infradead.org>
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 05:09:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Use ARCH_STACKWALK to implement a generic __get_wchan().
>
> STACKTRACE should be possible, but the various implementations of
> stack_trace_save_tsk() are not consistent enough for this to work.
> ARCH_STACKWALK is a smaller set of architectures with a better defined
> interface.
>
> Since get_wchan() pins the task in a blocked state, it is not
> necessary to take a reference on the task stack, the task isn't going
> anywhere.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Nice, this looks good.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-22 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 15:09 [PATCH 0/7] arch: More wchan fixes Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:25 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/7] stacktrace,sched: Make stack_trace_save_tsk() more robust Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:25 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-22 16:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:57 ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-22 16:54 ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-22 17:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-25 20:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-25 20:52 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-26 9:33 ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-25 16:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/7] ARM: implement ARCH_STACKWALK Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:18 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 4/7] arch: Make ARCH_STACKWALK independent of STACKTRACE Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:18 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-22 16:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 17:06 ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 5/7] powerpc, arm64: Mark __switch_to() as __sched Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:15 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-22 17:40 ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 6/7] arch: __get_wchan() || ARCH_STACKWALK Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 16:13 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-10-22 17:52 ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-22 15:09 ` [PATCH 7/7] selftests: proc: Make sure wchan works when it exists Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-22 15:27 ` [PATCH 0/7] arch: More wchan fixes Peter Zijlstra
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