Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel

Jens Remus
2026-04-30T10:11:51Z

On 4/28/2026 8:36 PM, 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.

Please add support to initialize the optional sframe unwinder debug
information. Either in the appropriate patches in this series or as a
separate patch.

Note that for the module case I wonder whether it would be preferable
to somehow indicate that it is a module name in the string, e.g.
"(<module-name>)" or "<module-name> (module)"?

diff --git a/kernel/unwind/sframe.c b/kernel/unwind/sframe.c
--- a/kernel/unwind/sframe.c
+++ b/kernel/unwind/sframe.c
@@ -1028,6 +1028,8 @@ void __init init_sframe_table(void)
kernel_sfsec.text_start = (unsigned long)_stext;
kernel_sfsec.text_end = (unsigned long)_etext;

+ dbg_init(&kernel_sfsec);
+
if (WARN_ON(sframe_read_header(&kernel_sfsec)))
return;
if (WARN_ON(sframe_validate_section(&kernel_sfsec)))
@@ -1047,6 +1049,8 @@ void sframe_module_init(struct module *mod, void *sframe, size_t sframe_size,
sec->text_start = (unsigned long)text;
sec->text_end = (unsigned long)text + text_size;

+ dbg_init(sec);
+
if (WARN_ON(sframe_read_header(sec)))
return;
if (WARN_ON(sframe_validate_section(sec)))
diff --git a/kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h b/kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h
--- a/kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h
+++ b/kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ static inline void dbg_init(struct sframe_section *sec)
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;

+ if (sec->sec_type == SFRAME_KERNEL) {
+ if (sec == &kernel_sfsec) {
+ sec->filename = kstrdup("(vmlinux)", GFP_KERNEL);
+ } else {
+ struct module *mod = container_of(sec, struct module,
+ arch.sframe_sec);
+ sec->filename = kstrdup(mod->name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ }
+
+ return;
+ }
+
guard(mmap_read_lock)(mm);
vma = vma_lookup(mm, sec->sframe_start);
if (!vma)

Regards,
Jens
--
Jens Remus
Linux on Z Development (D3303)
jremus@de.ibm.com / jremus@linux.ibm.com

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