Re: [PATCH 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel

Song Liu
2025-02-13T07:37:57Z

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org> wrote:
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> Song Liu <song@kernel.org> writes:
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> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com> wrote:
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> >> On 2/12/25 3:32 PM, Song Liu wrote:
> >> > I run some tests with this set and my RFC set [1]. Most of
> >> > the test is done with kpatch-build. I tested both Puranjay's
> >> > version [3] and my version [4].
> >> >
> >> > For gcc 14.2.1, I have seen the following issue with this
> >> > test [2]. This happens with both upstream and 6.13.2.
> >> > The livepatch loaded fine, but the system spilled out the
> >> > following warning quickly.
> >> >
> >>
> >> In presence of the issue
> >> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32666, I'd expect bad
> >> data in SFrame section. Which may be causing this symptom?
> >>
> >> To be clear, the issue affects loaded kernel modules. I cannot tell for
> >> certain - is there module loading involved in your test ?
> >
> > The KLP is a module, I guess that is also affected?
> >
> > During kpatch-build, we added some logic to drop the .sframe section.
> > I guess this is wrong, as we need the .sframe section when we apply
> > the next KLP. However, I don't think the issue is caused by missing
> > .sframe section.
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> Hi, I did the same testing and did not get the Warning.
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> I am testing on the 6.12.11 kernel with GCC 11.4.1.

Could you please also try kernel 6.13.2?

> Just to verify, the patch we are testing is:

Yes, this is the test patch.
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> P.S. - I have a downstream patch for create-diff-object to generate .sframe sections for
> livepatch module, will add it to the PR after some cleanups.

Yeah, I think the .sframe section is still needed.

Thanks,
Song