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Commit 4df29712 authored by Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) Committed by Steven Rostedt
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tracing: Remove most or all of stack tracer stack size from stack_max_size



Currently, the depth reported in the stack tracer stack_trace file
does not match the stack_max_size file. This is because the stack_max_size
includes the overhead of stack tracer itself while the depth does not.

The first time a max is triggered, a calculation is not performed that
figures out the overhead of the stack tracer and subtracts it from
the stack_max_size variable. The overhead is stored and is subtracted
from the reported stack size for comparing for a new max.

Now the stack_max_size corresponds to the reported depth:

 # cat stack_max_size
4640

 # cat stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (48 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     4640      32   _raw_spin_lock+0x18/0x24
  1)     4608     112   ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
  2)     4496      80   kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
  3)     4416      16   mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x17
[...]

While testing against and older gcc on x86 that uses mcount instead
of fentry, I found that pasing in ip + MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE let the
stack trace show one more function deep which was missing before.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent d4ecbfc4
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@@ -20,27 +20,24 @@

#define STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES 500

/*
 * If fentry is used, then the function being traced will
 * jump to fentry directly before it sets up its stack frame.
 * We need to ignore that one and record the parent. Since
 * the stack frame for the traced function wasn't set up yet,
 * the stack_trace wont see the parent. That needs to be added
 * manually to stack_dump_trace[] as the first element.
 */
#ifdef CC_USING_FENTRY
# define add_func	1
# define fentry		1
#else
# define add_func	0
# define fentry		0
#endif

static unsigned long stack_dump_trace[STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES+1] =
	 { [0 ... (STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES)] = ULONG_MAX };
static unsigned stack_dump_index[STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES];

/*
 * Reserve one entry for the passed in ip. This will allow
 * us to remove most or all of the stack size overhead
 * added by the stack tracer itself.
 */
static struct stack_trace max_stack_trace = {
	.max_entries		= STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES - add_func,
	.entries		= &stack_dump_trace[add_func],
	.max_entries		= STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES - 1,
	.entries		= &stack_dump_trace[1],
};

static unsigned long max_stack_size;
@@ -58,10 +55,14 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
{
	unsigned long this_size, flags;
	unsigned long *p, *top, *start;
	static int tracer_frame;
	int frame_size = ACCESS_ONCE(tracer_frame);
	int i;

	this_size = ((unsigned long)stack) & (THREAD_SIZE-1);
	this_size = THREAD_SIZE - this_size;
	/* Remove the frame of the tracer */
	this_size -= frame_size;

	if (this_size <= max_stack_size)
		return;
@@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
	local_irq_save(flags);
	arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);

	/* In case another CPU set the tracer_frame on us */
	if (unlikely(!frame_size))
		this_size -= tracer_frame;

	/* a race could have already updated it */
	if (this_size <= max_stack_size)
		goto out;
@@ -85,15 +90,12 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
	save_stack_trace(&max_stack_trace);

	/*
	 * When fentry is used, the traced function does not get
	 * its stack frame set up, and we lose the parent.
	 * Add that one in manally. We set up save_stack_trace()
	 * to not touch the first element in this case.
	 * Add the passed in ip from the function tracer.
	 * Searching for this on the stack will skip over
	 * most of the overhead from the stack tracer itself.
	 */
	if (add_func) {
	stack_dump_trace[0] = ip;
	max_stack_trace.nr_entries++;
	}

	/*
	 * Now find where in the stack these are.
@@ -123,6 +125,18 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
				found = 1;
				/* Start the search from here */
				start = p + 1;
				/*
				 * We do not want to show the overhead
				 * of the stack tracer stack in the
				 * max stack. If we haven't figured
				 * out what that is, then figure it out
				 * now.
				 */
				if (unlikely(!tracer_frame) && i == 1) {
					tracer_frame = (p - stack) *
						sizeof(unsigned long);
					max_stack_size -= tracer_frame;
				}
			}
		}

@@ -149,7 +163,26 @@ stack_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
	if (per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++ != 0)
		goto out;

	check_stack(parent_ip, &stack);
	/*
	 * When fentry is used, the traced function does not get
	 * its stack frame set up, and we lose the parent.
	 * The ip is pretty useless because the function tracer
	 * was called before that function set up its stack frame.
	 * In this case, we use the parent ip.
	 *
	 * By adding the return address of either the parent ip
	 * or the current ip we can disregard most of the stack usage
	 * caused by the stack tracer itself.
	 *
	 * The function tracer always reports the address of where the
	 * mcount call was, but the stack will hold the return address.
	 */
	if (fentry)
		ip = parent_ip;
	else
		ip += MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE;

	check_stack(ip, &stack);

 out:
	per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;