From: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Indu Bhagat <ibhagatgnu@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>,
Weinan Liu <wnliu@google.com>
Cc: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 4/4] arm64/unwind_user/sframe: Enable sframe unwinding on arm64
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:08:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260417150827.1183376-5-jremus@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260417150827.1183376-1-jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Add arm64 support for unwinding of user space using SFrame.
This leverages the unwind user (sframe) support for s390 which
enables architectures that pass the return address in a register,
may not necessarily save the return address on the stack (for
instance in leaf functions), and have SP at call site equal
SP at entry.
For this purpose provide arm64-specific unwind_user_get_ra_reg() and
unwind_user_get_reg() implementations, which return the value of the
link register (LR) or an arbitrary register in the topmost user space
frame. Define the arm64 SP and FP DWARF register numbers.
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
---
Notes (jremus):
Note: An arm64 implementation of unwind_user_get_reg() is strictly
only needed, if SFrame V3 flexible FDE would get generated for aarch64,
which is currently not the case in GNU Binutils 2.46.
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user_sframe.h | 8 +++++++
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user_sframe.h
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 994fd5162a1d..641a3a5fe5c9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ config ARM64
select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
select HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP
+ select HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user.h
index 0641d4d97b0f..3c7fd8c4ba5b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/insn.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_UNWIND_USER
@@ -16,6 +17,28 @@ static inline int unwind_user_word_size(struct pt_regs *regs)
return sizeof(long);
}
+static inline int unwind_user_get_ra_reg(unsigned long *val)
+{
+ struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(current);
+ *val = regs->regs[AARCH64_INSN_REG_LR];
+ return 0;
+}
+#define unwind_user_get_ra_reg unwind_user_get_ra_reg
+
+static inline int unwind_user_get_reg(unsigned long *val, unsigned int regnum)
+{
+ const struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(current);
+
+ if (regnum <= 30)
+ /* DWARF register numbers 0..15 */
+ *val = regs->regs[regnum];
+ else
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+#define unwind_user_get_reg unwind_user_get_reg
+
#endif /* CONFIG_UNWIND_USER */
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user_sframe.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user_sframe.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..65c0a6b6c835
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unwind_user_sframe.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_ARM64_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME_H
+#define _ASM_ARM64_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME_H
+
+#define SFRAME_REG_SP 31
+#define SFRAME_REG_FP 29
+
+#endif /* _ASM_ARM64_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME_H */
--
2.51.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-17 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-17 15:08 [PATCH v1 0/4] arm64: SFrame user space unwinding Jens Remus
2026-04-17 15:08 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] arm64/unwind_user/fp: Enable HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP Jens Remus
2026-04-17 15:08 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] arm64/uaccess: Add unsafe_copy_from_user() implementation Jens Remus
2026-04-17 15:08 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] arm64/vdso: Enable SFrame generation in vDSO Jens Remus
2026-04-17 15:08 ` Jens Remus [this message]
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