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[34.38.181.8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-45da0a19a0csm14106306f8f.20.2026.05.15.04.32.06 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 15 May 2026 04:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 11:32:00 +0000 From: Mostafa Saleh To: Dylan Hatch Cc: Roman Gushchin , Weinan Liu , Will Deacon , Josh Poimboeuf , Indu Bhagat , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Catalin Marinas , Jiri Kosina , Jens Remus , Mark Rutland , Prasanna Kumar T S M , Puranjay Mohan , Song Liu , joe.lawrence@redhat.com, linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel Message-ID: References: <20260428183643.3796063-1-dylanbhatch@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260428183643.3796063-1-dylanbhatch@google.com> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260515_043209_369077_89A3203E X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 19.71 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 06:36:35PM +0000, Dylan Hatch wrote: > Implement a generic kernel sframe-based [1] unwinder. The main goal is > to improve reliable stacktrace on arm64 by unwinding across exception > boundaries. > > On x86, the ORC unwinder provides reliable stacktrace through similar > methodology, but arm64 lacks the necessary support from objtool to > create ORC unwind tables. > > Currently, there's already a sframe unwinder proposed for userspace: [2]. > To maintain common definitions and algorithms for sframe lookup, a > substantial portion of this patch series aims to refactor the sframe > lookup code to support both kernel and userspace sframe sections. > > Currently, only GNU Binutils support sframe. This series relies on the > Sframe V3 format, which is supported in binutils 2.46. > > These patches are based on Steven Rostedt's sframe/core branch [3], > which is and aggregation of existing work done for x86 sframe userspace > unwind, and contains [2]. This branch is, in turn, based on Linux > v7.0-rc3. This full series (applied to the sframe/core branch) is > available on github: [4]. > Not sure if related, but after updating my toolchain (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 15.2.0-4) 15.2.0), I hit link errors: ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o:(.sframe) is being placed in '.sframe' ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom.o:(.sframe) is being placed in '.sframe` I applied this series hoping that fix it, but it doesn't, so far I have this hack : diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S index 52314be29191..53bdf757ee44 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ SECTIONS /DISCARD/ : { *(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.* .sdata*) *(.bss .sbss .dynbss .dynsbss) - *(.eh_frame .eh_frame_hdr) + *(.eh_frame .eh_frame_hdr .sframe) } } diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 60c8c22fd3e4..759903acd6fc 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -1064,6 +1064,7 @@ /* ld.bfd warns about .gnu.version* even when not emitted */ \ *(.gnu.version*) \ *(__tracepoint_check) \ + *(.sframe) \ #define DISCARDS \ /DISCARD/ : { \ Thanks, Mostafa