[PATCH] powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Jul 29 17:48:09 AEST 2023


On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:43:49 +0530, Naveen N Rao wrote:
> With ppc64 -mprofile-kernel and ppc32 -pg, profiling instructions to
> call into ftrace are emitted right at function entry. The instruction
> sequence used is minimal to reduce overhead. Crucially, a stackframe is
> not created for the function being traced. This breaks stack unwinding
> since the function being traced does not have a stackframe for itself.
> As such, it never shows up in the backtrace:
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

[1/1] powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/41a506ef71eb38d94fe133f565c87c3e06ccc072

cheers


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