From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] dump_stack: consolidate dump_stack() implementations and unify their behaviors
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:48:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130402084808.0c6d61f8@mschwide> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130330114534.GA5404@osiris>
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:45:35 +0100
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each
> > architecture. show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the
> > current task as does dump_stack(). On some archs, dump_stack() prints
> > extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the
> > backtrace while the two are identical on other archs.
>
> [...]
>
> > This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in
> > lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from
> > x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific
> > dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin and s390.
> > Blackfin's dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand
> > and s390 prints its own debug information which includes fields which
> > aren't accessible from arch-indepdent code.
>
> The couple of extra fields aren't worth an s390 version of dump_stack()
> that differs from all other architectures.
> Please drop the s390 version as well. Thanks!
Hmm, we would lose task_thread_info(current)->cpu and current->thread.ksp,
I don't care much about the kernel stack pointer which has been stored at
the last call to __switch_to but the cpu number might be interesting.
Could we add the cpu number to the generic dump_stack version?
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-30 2:27 [PATCHSET] arch: unify task dump debug info Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 2:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: don't show trace beyond show_stack(NULL, NULL) Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 2:27 ` [PATCH 2/5] sparc32: make show_stack() acquire %fp if @_ksp is not specified Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 3:29 ` David Miller
2013-03-30 2:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] dump_stack: consolidate dump_stack() implementations and unify their behaviors Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 3:30 ` David Miller
2013-03-30 5:27 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-03-30 5:27 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-03-30 11:45 ` Heiko Carstens
2013-04-02 6:48 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2013-04-02 18:26 ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-02 9:22 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-04-16 14:59 ` James Hogan
2013-04-16 14:59 ` James Hogan
2013-03-30 2:27 ` [PATCH 4/5] dump_stack: implement arch-specific hardware description in task dumps Tejun Heo
2013-04-01 18:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-04-01 18:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-04-02 18:24 ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-02 18:24 ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 2:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] dump_stack: unify debug information printed by show_regs() Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-30 3:30 ` David Miller
2013-03-30 6:13 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-03-30 6:13 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-04-02 18:07 ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-02 9:21 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-04-03 4:57 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-04-03 4:57 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-04-16 15:05 ` James Hogan
2013-04-16 15:05 ` James Hogan
2013-04-02 9:24 ` [PATCHSET] arch: unify task dump debug info David Howells
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