From: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Weinan Liu <wnliu@google.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, joe.lawrence@redhat.com,
Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/6] unwind: build kernel with sframe info
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 22:38:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904223850.884188-2-dylanbhatch@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250904223850.884188-1-dylanbhatch@google.com>
Use the -Wa,--gsframe flags to build the code, so GAS will generate
a new .sframe section for the stack trace information.
Currently, the sframe format only supports arm64 and x86_64
architectures. Add this configuration on arm64 to enable sframe
unwinder in the future.
Signed-off-by: Weinan Liu <wnliu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@linux.microsoft.com>
---
Makefile | 8 ++++++++
arch/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b9c661913250..09972c71a3e8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1078,6 +1078,14 @@ endif
# Ensure compilers do not transform certain loops into calls to wcslen()
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-builtin-wcslen
+# build with sframe table
+ifdef CONFIG_SFRAME_UNWIND_TABLE
+CC_FLAGS_SFRAME := -Wa,--gsframe
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CC_FLAGS_SFRAME)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CC_FLAGS_SFRAME)
+export CC_FLAGS_SFRAME
+endif
+
# change __FILE__ to the relative path to the source directory
ifdef building_out_of_srctree
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srcroot)/=)
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index d1b4ffd6e085..4362d2f49d91 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -1782,4 +1782,10 @@ config ARCH_WANTS_PRE_LINK_VMLINUX
config ARCH_HAS_CPU_ATTACK_VECTORS
bool
+config AS_SFRAME
+ def_bool $(as-instr,.cfi_sections .sframe\n.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_endproc)
+
+config SFRAME_UNWIND_TABLE
+ bool
+
endmenu
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
index 265c4461031f..d64bf58457de 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -20,4 +20,14 @@ config ARM64_RELOC_TEST
depends on m
tristate "Relocation testing module"
+config SFRAME_UNWINDER
+ bool "Sframe unwinder"
+ depends on AS_SFRAME
+ depends on 64BIT
+ select SFRAME_UNWIND_TABLE
+ help
+ This option enables the sframe (Simple Frame) unwinder for unwinding
+ kernel stack traces. It uses unwind table that is directly generated
+ by toolchain based on DWARF CFI information.
+
source "drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index 7dec05dd33b7..c60ef921956f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING -DBUILD_VDSO
CC_FLAGS_REMOVE_VDSO := $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os $(CC_FLAGS_SCS) \
$(RANDSTRUCT_CFLAGS) $(KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS) \
$(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) \
- $(CC_FLAGS_LTO) $(CC_FLAGS_CFI) \
+ $(CC_FLAGS_LTO) $(CC_FLAGS_CFI) $(CC_FLAGS_SFRAME) \
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
CC_FLAGS_ADD_VDSO := -O2 -mcmodel=tiny -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index ae2d2359b79e..4f486080e4fb 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -473,6 +473,8 @@ defined(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) || defined(CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG)
*(.rodata1) \
} \
\
+ SFRAME \
+ \
/* PCI quirks */ \
.pci_fixup : AT(ADDR(.pci_fixup) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.pci_fixup_early, _pci_fixups_early, __start, __end) \
@@ -891,6 +893,19 @@ defined(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) || defined(CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG)
#define TRACEDATA
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SFRAME_UNWIND_TABLE
+#define SFRAME \
+ /* sframe */ \
+ .sframe : AT(ADDR(.sframe) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ __start_sframe_header = .; \
+ KEEP(*(.sframe)) \
+ KEEP(*(.init.sframe)) \
+ __stop_sframe_header = .; \
+ }
+#else
+#define SFRAME
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_INDEX
#define PRINTK_INDEX \
.printk_index : AT(ADDR(.printk_index) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
--
2.51.0.355.g5224444f11-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-04 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-04 22:38 [PATCH v2 0/6] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel Dylan Hatch
2025-09-04 22:38 ` Dylan Hatch [this message]
2025-11-14 13:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] unwind: build kernel with sframe info Will Deacon
2025-11-19 14:59 ` Jens Remus
2025-09-04 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] arm64: entry: add unwind info for various kernel entries Dylan Hatch
2025-09-04 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] unwind: add sframe v2 header Dylan Hatch
2025-09-04 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] unwind: Implement generic sframe unwinder library Dylan Hatch
2025-09-09 16:44 ` Puranjay Mohan
2025-09-09 18:39 ` Indu Bhagat
2025-09-04 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] arm64/module, unwind: Add sframe support for modules Dylan Hatch
2025-09-04 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] unwind: arm64: Add reliable stacktrace with sframe unwinder Dylan Hatch
2025-09-17 23:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2025-11-15 6:44 ` Dylan Hatch
2025-11-17 23:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2025-11-19 3:17 ` Dylan Hatch
2025-11-19 7:12 ` Indu Bhagat
2025-09-29 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel Song Liu
2025-09-29 19:55 ` Puranjay Mohan
2025-11-15 6:50 ` Dylan Hatch
2025-11-17 23:06 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2025-11-17 23:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-18 0:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2025-11-18 0:49 ` Puranjay Mohan
2025-11-18 5:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2025-11-18 18:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-18 18:29 ` Indu Bhagat
2025-11-17 23:50 ` Puranjay Mohan
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