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From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com, ardb@kernel.org,
	nobuta.keiya@fujitsu.com, sjitindarsingh@gmail.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 03/11] arm64: Make get_wchan() use arch_stack_walk()
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:30:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <217ce31e-222b-cc10-f5e1-027e00a49cd4@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXA/eepRCCzL+/jD@sirena.org.uk>

I will take a look at what Peter has done and will coordinate with him.

Thanks.

Madhavan

On 10/20/21 11:10 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:58:39PM -0500, madvenka@linux.microsoft.com wrote:
>> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
>>
>> Currently, get_wchan() in ARM64 code walks the stack using start_backtrace()
>> and unwind_frame(). Make it use arch_stack_walk() instead. This makes
>> maintenance easier.
> 
> This overlaps with some very similar updates that Peter Zijlstra is
> working on which addresses some existing problems with wchan:
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211008111527.438276127@infradead.org/
> 
> It probably makes sense for you to coordinate with Peter here, some of
> that series is already merged up to his patch 6 which looks very
> similar to what you've got here.  In that thread you'll see that Mark
> Rutland spotted an issue with the handling of __switch_to() on arm64
> which probably also applies to your change.
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-21 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2021-10-15  2:34 ` [PATCH v9 00/11] arm64: Reorganize the unwinder and implement stack trace reliability checks madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 01/11] arm64: Select STACKTRACE in arch/arm64/Kconfig madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 10/11] arm64: Introduce stack trace reliability checks in the unwinder madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 11/11] arm64: Create a list of SYM_CODE functions, check return PC against list madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 02/11] arm64: Make perf_callchain_kernel() use arch_stack_walk() madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 03/11] arm64: Make get_wchan() " madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 04/11] arm64: Make return_address() " madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 05/11] arm64: Make dump_stacktrace() " madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 06/11] arm64: Make profile_pc() " madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 07/11] arm64: Call stack_backtrace() only from within walk_stackframe() madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 08/11] arm64: Rename unwinder functions, prevent them from being traced and kprobed madvenka
2021-10-15  2:34   ` [PATCH v9 09/11] arm64: Make the unwind loop in unwind() similar to other architectures madvenka
2021-10-15  2:53   ` [PATCH v9 00/11] arm64: Reorganize the unwinder and implement stack trace reliability checks Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58 ` [PATCH v10 " madvenka
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 01/11] arm64: Select STACKTRACE in arch/arm64/Kconfig madvenka
2021-10-15 18:28     ` Mark Brown
2021-10-21 12:28       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-22 18:02     ` Mark Rutland
2021-11-12 17:44       ` Mark Rutland
2021-11-14 16:15         ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 02/11] arm64: Make perf_callchain_kernel() use arch_stack_walk() madvenka
2021-10-20 14:59     ` Mark Brown
2021-10-21 12:28       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-22 18:11     ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-23 12:49       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 03/11] arm64: Make get_wchan() " madvenka
2021-10-20 16:10     ` Mark Brown
2021-10-21 12:30       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman [this message]
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 04/11] arm64: Make return_address() " madvenka
2021-10-20 15:03     ` Mark Brown
2021-10-21 12:29       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-22 18:51     ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-23 12:51       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 05/11] arm64: Make dump_stacktrace() " madvenka
2021-10-25 16:49     ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-26 12:05       ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-27 16:09         ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 06/11] arm64: Make profile_pc() " madvenka
2021-10-25  2:18     ` nobuta.keiya
2021-10-27 16:10       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-27 13:32     ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-27 16:15       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 07/11] arm64: Call stack_backtrace() only from within walk_stackframe() madvenka
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 08/11] arm64: Rename unwinder functions, prevent them from being traced and kprobed madvenka
2021-10-27 17:53     ` Mark Rutland
2021-10-27 20:07       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 09/11] arm64: Make the unwind loop in unwind() similar to other architectures madvenka
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 10/11] arm64: Introduce stack trace reliability checks in the unwinder madvenka
2021-11-04 12:39     ` nobuta.keiya
2021-11-10  3:13       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-10-15  2:58   ` [PATCH v10 11/11] arm64: Create a list of SYM_CODE functions, check return PC against list madvenka
2021-10-15 17:00   ` [PATCH v10 00/11] arm64: Reorganize the unwinder and implement stack trace reliability checks Madhavan T. Venkataraman

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