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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-12-06 04:34:27 (GMT)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-12-06 07:27:24 (GMT)
commitaf2d8289f57e427836be482c6f72cca674028121 (patch)
tree8bf5da73fb7459a4eb3f3552eebec87c30e7cc6d /arch/x86/boot/mtools.conf.in
parentb625b3b3b740e177a1148594cd3ad5ff52f35315 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-af2d8289f57e427836be482c6f72cca674028121.tar.xz
x86: Fixup wrong irq frame link in stacktraces
When we enter in irq, two things can happen to preserve the link to the previous frame pointer: - If we were in an irq already, we don't switch to the irq stack as we are inside. We just need to save the previous frame pointer and to link the new one to the previous. - Otherwise we need another level of indirection. We enter the irq with the previous stack. We save the previous bp inside and make bp pointing to its saved address. Then we switch to the irq stack and push bp another time but to the new stack. This makes two levels to dereference instead of one. In the second case, the current stacktrace code omits the second level and loses the frame pointer accuracy. The stack that follows will then be considered as unreliable. Handling that makes the perf callchain happier. Before: 43.94% [k] _raw_read_lock | --- _read_lock | |--60.53%-- send_sigio | __kill_fasync | kill_fasync | evdev_pass_event | evdev_event | input_pass_event | input_handle_event | input_event | synaptics_process_byte | psmouse_handle_byte | psmouse_interrupt | serio_interrupt | i8042_interrupt | handle_IRQ_event | handle_edge_irq | handle_irq | __irqentry_text_start | ret_from_intr | | | |--30.43%-- __select | | | |--17.39%-- 0x454f15 | | | |--13.04%-- __read | | | |--13.04%-- vread_hpet | | | |--13.04%-- _xcb_lock_io | | | --13.04%-- 0x7f630878ce8 After: 50.00% [k] _raw_read_lock | --- _read_lock | |--98.97%-- send_sigio | __kill_fasync | kill_fasync | evdev_pass_event | evdev_event | input_pass_event | input_handle_event | input_event | | | |--96.88%-- synaptics_process_byte | | psmouse_handle_byte | | psmouse_interrupt | | serio_interrupt | | i8042_interrupt | | handle_IRQ_event | | handle_edge_irq | | handle_irq | | __irqentry_text_start | | ret_from_intr | | | | | |--39.78%-- __const_udelay | | | | | | | |--91.89%-- ath5k_hw_register_timeout | | | | ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration | | | | ath5k_hw_reset | | | | ath5k_reset | | | | ath5k_config | | | | ieee80211_hw_config | | | | | | | | | |--88.24%-- ieee80211_scan_work | | | | | worker_thread | | | | | kthread | | | | | child_rip | | | | | | | | | --11.76%-- ieee80211_scan_completed | | | | ieee80211_scan_work | | | | worker_thread | | | | kthread | | | | child_rip | | | | | | | --8.11%-- ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration | | | ath5k_hw_reset | | | ath5k_reset | | | ath5k_config Note: This does not only affect perf events but also x86-64 stacktraces. They were considered as unreliable once we quit the irq stack frame. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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