From: lauraa@codeaurora.org (Laura Abbott)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: unwind: enable dumping stacks for SMP && ARM_UNWIND
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:52:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <507769CA.6090903@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346021216-21979-3-git-send-email-ccross@android.com>
Hi,
On 8/26/2012 3:46 PM, Colin Cross wrote:
> Unwinding with CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND is much more complicated than
> unwinding with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, but there are only a few points
> that require validation in order to avoid faults or infinite loops.
> Avoiding faults is easy by adding checks to verify that all accesses
> relative to the frame's stack pointer remain inside the stack.
>
> When CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set it is possible for two frames to
> have the same SP, so there is no way to avoid repeated calls to
> unwind_frame continuing forever.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> ---
This is a feature we've wanted for a long time. I ran some test with
repeated catting of stacks with processes dying and the results looked good.
You can add a Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Laura
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-12 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-26 22:46 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: enable dumping stacks for CONFIG_SMP Colin Cross
2012-08-26 22:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: stacktrace: enable dumping stacks for SMP && FRAME_POINTER Colin Cross
2012-08-26 22:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: unwind: enable dumping stacks for SMP && ARM_UNWIND Colin Cross
2012-10-12 0:52 ` Laura Abbott [this message]
2012-10-12 9:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-12 10:02 ` Dave Martin
2012-10-16 2:15 ` Colin Cross
2012-10-16 10:12 ` Dave Martin
2012-10-16 10:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-16 12:26 ` Dave Martin
2012-10-16 21:53 ` Colin Cross
2012-10-16 21:30 ` Colin Cross
2012-10-18 6:43 ` Dave Martin
2012-09-23 2:52 ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM: enable dumping stacks for CONFIG_SMP Colin Cross
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