From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Jens Remus" <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
"Vasily Gorbik" <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
"Alexander Gordeev" <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
"Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/24] unwind_user: Enable archs that pass RA in a register
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:02:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260821200230.4873F1F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260821195259.2688377-4-jremus@linux.ibm.com>
> Not all architectures/ABIs pass the return address (RA) on the stack on
> function entry, like x86-64 does due to its CALL instruction pushing
> the RA onto the stack. Architectures/ABIs, such as s390, also do not
> require the RA to be saved on the stack in the function prologue. In
> particular, the RA may never be saved to the stack at all, such as in
> leaf functions. Unwinding must therefore not assume the presence of a
> RA saved on stack for the topmost frame.
>
> Treat a RA offset from CFA of zero as indication that the RA is not
> saved (on the stack). For the topmost frame treat it as indication that
> the RA is in the link/RA register, such as on arm64 and s390, and obtain
> it from there. For non-topmost frames treat it as error, as the RA must
> be saved.
>
> Additionally allow the SP to be unchanged in the topmost frame, for
> architectures where SP at function entry == SP at call site, such as
> arm64 and s390.
>
> Note that treating a RA offset from CFA of zero as indication that
> the RA is not saved on the stack additionally allows for architectures,
> such as s390, where the frame pointer (FP) may be saved without the RA
> being saved as well. Provided that such architectures represent this
> in SFrame by encoding the "missing" RA offset using a padding RA offset
> with a value of zero.
>
> Reviewed-by: Indu Bhagat <ibhagatgnu@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-21 19:52 [RFC PATCH v2 00/24] unwind_user: Implement .eh_frame handling Jens Remus
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/24] unwind_user: Add generic and arch-specific headers to MAINTAINERS Jens Remus
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/24] unwind_user: Stop when reaching an outermost frame Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:00 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/24] unwind_user: Enable archs that pass RA in a register Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:02 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/24] unwind_user: Flexible FP/RA recovery rules Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/24] unwind_user: Flexible CFA " Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/24] unwind_user: Enable archs that define CFA = SP_callsite + offset Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Add support for reading .eh_frame_hdr section Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Store .eh_frame_hdr section data in per-mm maple tree Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:13 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Add support for reading .eh_frame section Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Detect .eh_frame_hdr sections in executables Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:10 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Wire up unwind_user to eh_frame Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Remove .eh_frame[_hdr] section on detected corruption Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Show file name in debug output Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Add .eh_frame[_hdr] validation option Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:10 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Duplicate registered .eh_frame[_hdr] section data on clone/fork Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Ignore DW_CFA_GNU_args_size Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Add support for DWARF expressions Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 18/24] x86/uaccess: Add unsafe_copy_from_user() implementation Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 19/24] unwind_user/eh_frame/x86: Enable eh_frame unwinding on x86 Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 20/24] unwind_user/eh_frame/x86: Handle PLT expressions Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 21/24] unwind_user/eh_frame/x86: Handle DRAP expressions Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 22/24] s390/ptrace: Provide frame_pointer() Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 23/24] unwind_user/eh_frame/s390: Enable eh_frame unwinding on s390 Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-21 19:52 ` [RFC PATCH v2 24/24] unwind_user/eh_frame: Add prctl() interface for (un)registering .eh_frame_hdr sections Jens Remus
2026-08-21 20:22 ` sashiko-bot
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