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From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com, jthierry@redhat.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: Detect FTRACE cases that make the stack trace unreliable
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:23:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eacc6098-a15f-c07a-2730-cb16cb8e1982@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210408165825.GP4516@sirena.org.uk>



On 4/8/21 11:58 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 03:43:12PM -0500, madvenka@linux.microsoft.com wrote:
>> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
>>
>> When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is enabled and tracing is activated
>> for a function, the ftrace infrastructure is called for the function at
>> the very beginning. Ftrace creates two frames:
> 
> This looks good to me however I'd really like someone who has a firmer
> understanding of what ftrace is doing to double check as it is entirely
> likely that I am missing cases here, it seems likely that if I am
> missing stuff it's extra stuff that needs to be added and we're not
> actually making use of the reliability information yet.
> 

OK. So, do you have some specific reviewer(s) in mind? Apart from yourself, Mark Rutland and
Josh Poimboeuf, these are some reviewers I can think of (in alphabetical order):

AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Sorry if I missed out any of the other experts.

Thanks.

Madhavan                                                 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <705993ccb34a611c75cdae0a8cb1b40f9b218ebd>
2021-04-05 20:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] arm64: Implement stack trace reliability checks madvenka
2021-04-05 20:43   ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] arm64: Implement infrastructure for " madvenka
2021-04-08 15:15     ` Mark Brown
2021-04-08 17:17     ` Mark Brown
2021-04-08 19:30       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-08 23:30         ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-09 11:57           ` Mark Brown
2021-04-05 20:43   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: Mark a stack trace unreliable if an EL1 exception frame is detected madvenka
2021-04-05 20:43   ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: Detect FTRACE cases that make the stack trace unreliable madvenka
2021-04-08 16:58     ` Mark Brown
2021-04-08 19:23       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman [this message]
2021-04-09 11:31         ` Mark Brown
2021-04-09 14:02           ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-09 12:27     ` Mark Rutland
2021-04-09 17:23       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-05 20:43   ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: Mark stack trace as unreliable if kretprobed functions are present madvenka
2021-04-09 12:09   ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] arm64: Implement stack trace reliability checks Mark Rutland
2021-04-09 17:16     ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-09 21:37     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-04-09 22:05       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-09 22:32         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-04-09 22:53           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-04-11 17:54             ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-12 16:59           ` Mark Brown
2021-04-13 22:53             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-04-14 12:24               ` Mark Brown
2021-04-12 17:36       ` Mark Brown
2021-04-12 19:55         ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-13 11:02           ` Mark Brown
2021-04-14 10:23             ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-14 12:35               ` Mark Brown
2021-04-16 14:43               ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-04-16 15:36                 ` Mark Brown

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