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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: andrey.konovalov@linux.dev
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>,
	Florian Mayer <fmayer@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] kasan, arm64, scs, stacktrace: collect stack traces from Shadow Call Stack
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:36:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANpmjNP_bWMzSkW=Q8Lc7yRWw8as_FoBpD-zwcweAiSBVn-Fsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1648049113.git.andreyknvl@google.com>

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 16:33, <andrey.konovalov@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
>
> kasan, arm64, scs, stacktrace: collect stack traces from Shadow Call Stack
>
> Currently, KASAN always uses the normal stack trace collection routines,
> which rely on the unwinder, when saving alloc and free stack traces.
>
> Instead of invoking the unwinder, collect the stack trace by copying
> frames from the Shadow Call Stack whenever it is enabled. This reduces
> boot time by 30% for all KASAN modes when Shadow Call Stack is enabled.
>
> Stack staces are collected from the Shadow Call Stack via a new
> stack_trace_save_shadow() interface.
>
> Note that the frame of the interrupted function is not included into
> the stack trace, as it is not yet saved on the SCS when an interrupt
> happens.
>
> ---
>
> To deal with this last thing, we could save the interrupted frame address
> in another per-CPU variable. I'll look into implementing this for v3.
>
> I decided to postpone the changes to stack depot that avoid copying
> frames twice until a planned upcoming update for stack depot.

That's fair.

> Changes v1->v2:
> - Provide a kernel-wide stack_trace_save_shadow() interface for collecting
>   stack traces from shadow stack.
> - Use ptrauth_strip_insn_pac() and READ_ONCE_NOCHECK, see the comments.
> - Get SCS pointer from x18, as per-task value is meant to save the SCS
>   value on CPU switches.
> - Collect stack frames from SDEI and IRQ contexts.

Do any of these new changes introduce new (noticeable) overhead (in
particular patch 2)?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-28 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-23 15:32 [PATCH v2 0/4] kasan, arm64, scs, stacktrace: collect stack traces from Shadow Call Stack andrey.konovalov
2022-03-23 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] stacktrace: add interface based on shadow call stack andrey.konovalov
2022-03-25 20:46   ` Andrew Morton
2022-03-29 18:36     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-31  9:19   ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-05 15:37     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-23 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] arm64, scs: save scs_sp values per-cpu when switching stacks andrey.konovalov
2022-03-24 11:08   ` kernel test robot
2022-03-24 21:39   ` kernel test robot
2022-03-31  9:24   ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-05 15:22     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-23 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: implement stack_trace_save_shadow andrey.konovalov
2022-03-24  8:35   ` kernel test robot
2022-03-31  9:32   ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-05 15:38     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-23 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] kasan: use stack_trace_save_shadow andrey.konovalov
2022-03-28 12:49   ` Marco Elver
2022-03-29 18:36     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-28 12:36 ` Marco Elver [this message]
2022-03-29 18:36   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] kasan, arm64, scs, stacktrace: collect stack traces from Shadow Call Stack Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-29 20:11     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-03-31  9:54 ` Mark Rutland
2022-03-31 12:39   ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-05 15:10     ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-04-07 18:41       ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-13 19:28         ` Andrey Konovalov
2022-04-14  7:02           ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-05 15:09   ` Andrey Konovalov

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