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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: ftrace: function_graph: dump real return addr in call trace
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:21:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151028152130.GF18966@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5628340F.5080902@huawei.com>

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 08:55:43AM +0800, libin wrote:
> ? 2015/10/20 23:32, Catalin Marinas ??:
> >On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:18:12AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >>On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:51:33 +0100
> >>Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is this the same old problem caused by e306dfd06fcb ("ARM64: unwind: Fix
> >>>PC calculation")? I've said previously that I'm happy to revert that if
> >>>we're the only architecture with this behaviour, but Akashi resisted
> >>>because there are other issues with ftrace that he was hoping to address
> >>>and they would resolve this too.
> >>
> >>Just a reference, but this patch is pretty much exactly what x86
> >>currently has. I wonder if I should make that function generic for all
> >>archs to use.
> >>
> >>If you accept this patch, I can look at what archs do and pull out the
> >>common code and place it into the core code and have the archs call
> >>that instead.
> >
> >The difference I see from the sh and x86 version is that we have this -4
> >on arm64, introduced by e306dfd06fcb as Will mentioned above (it seemed
> >to have caused more problems that it solved). I think we should revert
> >that commit first just to be in line with other architectures and then
> >apply additional fixes as needed.
> >
> >Question for Li Bin: is your patch still needed if we revert commit
> >e306dfd06fcb?
> >
> 
> It still be needed, but it can be implemented in generic for all archs
> as Steve suggested.

Well, there's still an argument for reverting e306dfd06fcb because it
makes us behave differently to other architectures (in particular,
arch/arm).

Will

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 12:12 [PATCH] arm64: ftrace: function_graph: dump real return addr in call trace Li Bin
2015-10-15 12:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-15 12:51   ` Will Deacon
2015-10-15 14:18     ` Steven Rostedt
2015-10-20 15:32       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-10-22  0:55         ` libin
2015-10-22  1:13           ` Steven Rostedt
2015-10-28 15:21           ` Will Deacon [this message]

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