From: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
To: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Cc: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The same symbol is printed twice when use tracepoint to get stack
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:06:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aWgFSJIpsP2M6mYA@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31e5d219-07f4-46c0-bef1-53af20d473f1@oracle.com>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 05:35:45PM +0000, Alan Maguire wrote:
> On 14/01/2026 15:09, Tao Chen wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > When using tracepoints to retrieve stack information, I observed that perf_trace_sched_migrate_task was printed twice. And the issue also occurs with tools using libbpf.
> >
>
> You may need the fix Jiri provided for x86_64 [1]. Eugene mentioned that
> the issue persists for arm64 however [2].
yep, there's also follow patchset up for kprobe multi [1]
jirka
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260112214940.1222115-1-jolsa@kernel.org/
>
> Alan
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251104215405.168643-2-jolsa@kernel.org/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/a38fed68-67bc-98ce-8e12-743342121ae3@oracle.com/
>
> > sudo bpftrace -e '
> > tracepoint:sched:sched_migrate_task {
> > printf("Task %s migrated by:\n", args->comm);
> > print(kstack);
> > }'
> >
> > Task kcompactd0 migrated by:
> >
> > perf_trace_sched_migrate_task+9
> > perf_trace_sched_migrate_task+9
> > set_task_cpu+353
> > detach_task+77
> > detach_tasks+281
> > sched_balance_rq+452
> > sched_balance_newidle+504
> > pick_next_task_fair+84
> > __pick_next_task+66
> > pick_next_task+43
> > __schedule+332
> > schedule+41
> > schedule_hrtimeout_range+239
> > do_poll.constprop.0+668
> > do_sys_poll+499
> > __x64_sys_ppoll+220
> > x64_sys_call+5722
> > do_syscall_64+126
> > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+118
> >
> > Task jbd2/sda2-8 migrated by:
> >
> > perf_trace_sched_migrate_task+9
> > perf_trace_sched_migrate_task+9
> > set_task_cpu+353
> > try_to_wake_up+365
> > default_wake_function+26
> > autoremove_wake_function+18
> > __wake_up_common+118
> > __wake_up+55
> > __jbd2_log_start_commit+195
> >
> > env:
> > bpftrace v0.21.2
> > ubuntu24.04,6.14.0-36-generic
> >
> > The issue is as follows:
> > https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace/issues/4949
> >
> >
> > It seems that there is no special handling in the kernel.
> > Does anyone has thoughts on this issue. Thanks.
> >
> > BPF_CALL_4(bpf_get_stack_raw_tp, struct bpf_raw_tracepoint_args *, args,
> > void *, buf, u32, size, u64, flags)
> > {
> > struct pt_regs *regs = get_bpf_raw_tp_regs();
> > int ret;
> >
> > if (IS_ERR(regs))
> > return PTR_ERR(regs);
> >
> > perf_fetch_caller_regs(regs);
> > ret = bpf_get_stack((unsigned long) regs, (unsigned long) buf,
> > (unsigned long) size, flags, 0);
> > put_bpf_raw_tp_regs();
> > return ret;
> > }
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-14 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-14 15:09 The same symbol is printed twice when use tracepoint to get stack Tao Chen
2026-01-14 17:35 ` Alan Maguire
2026-01-14 21:06 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2026-01-15 2:18 ` Tao Chen
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