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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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	"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>,
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	Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/6] tracing: Do not bother getting user space stacktraces for kernel threads
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:03:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250828180356.546256287@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20250828180300.591225320@kernel.org

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

If a user space stacktrace is requested when running a kernel thread, just
return, as there's no point trying to get the user space stacktrace as
there is no user space.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Changes since v5: https://lore.kernel.org/20250424192613.014380756@goodmis.org

- Also add check for PF_USER_WORKER to test for kernel thread

 kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 1b7db732c0b1..2cca29c9863d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3138,6 +3138,10 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct trace_array *tr,
 	if (!(tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_USERSTACKTRACE))
 		return;
 
+	/* No point doing user space stacktraces on kernel threads */
+	if (current->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_USER_WORKER))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * NMIs can not handle page faults, even with fix ups.
 	 * The save user stack can (and often does) fault.
-- 
2.50.1



  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-28 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-28 18:03 [PATCH v6 0/6] tracing: Deferred unwinding of user space stack traces Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 18:03 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-08-28 18:03 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] tracing: Rename __dynamic_array() to __dynamic_field() for ftrace events Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 18:03 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] tracing: Implement deferred user space stacktracing Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 18:03 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] tracing: Have deferred user space stacktrace show file offsets Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 18:03 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] tracing: Show inode and device major:minor in deferred user space stacktrace Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 18:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 18:58     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-28 19:02       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-08-28 19:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 20:04         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-28 20:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 20:17         ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 20:27           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-28 20:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 20:51             ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 21:00               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-28 21:27                 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 16:27                 ` Sam James
2025-08-28 20:38           ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 20:48             ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 21:06               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 21:17                 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-28 22:10                   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 22:44                     ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 15:06                     ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 15:47                       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 16:07                         ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 16:33                           ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 16:42                             ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 16:50                               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 17:02                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 17:13                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 17:57                                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-29 20:51                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 16:57                               ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 17:02                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 17:52                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 16:19                         ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 16:28                           ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 16:49                             ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 16:59                               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 17:17                                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-29 17:33                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 18:11                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 20:54                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 21:18                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 22:40                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-29 23:09                                             ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-29 23:42                                               ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-30  0:36                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-30  0:44                                               ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-30  0:45                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-30  1:20                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-30  1:26                                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-30 18:31                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-30 19:03                                                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-08-30 19:03                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-28 18:03 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] tracing: Add an event to map the inodes to their file names Steven Rostedt

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