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From: "Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev" <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
To: lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
Subject: [lttng-dev] Correctly using callstack-user context
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 17:09:40 -0400	[thread overview]
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Hi,

As part of a big software safety certification effort, we are looking into
making sure that some functions of our API do not allocate memory and do
not use any blocking syscalls.

This part is done and is working (using kmem_mm_page_{alloc,free} for
memory allocations for now). However, if we do get memory allocations, we
want to know where they're from. To do this, I've been looking at using the
callstack-user context. However, I have a hard time getting more than 1
callstack-user address.

I'm on 5.3.0-46-generic, i.e. CONFIG_ARCH_STACKWALK-compatible, from what I
could find. I tried creating a minimal version using
-fno-omit-frame-pointer & without any optimization, but I still get only
one address in the callstack_user context when I know there should be at
least a few.

Note that this is running inside a Docker container, but lttng-modules is
installed on the host, and a root session-daemon is running inside the
Docker container. Also, I installed LTTng using the stable-2.11 Ubuntu PPA.

Is there something I might be doing wrong? Am I supposed to compile
lttng-modules from source in order to use the callstack-* contexts? I
couldn't find much documentation about this, other than the brief mention
in the 2.11 docs.

Regards,


Christophe

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             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-11 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11 21:09 Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev [this message]
2020-05-11 21:09 ` [lttng-dev] Correctly using callstack-user context Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev
2020-05-12 12:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2020-05-12 12:27   ` [lttng-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2020-05-13 13:42   ` Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev
2020-05-13 13:42     ` [lttng-dev] " Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev
2020-05-13 14:02     ` Genevieve Bastien via lttng-dev
2020-05-13 14:02       ` [lttng-dev] " Genevieve Bastien via lttng-dev
2020-05-13 15:34       ` Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev
2020-05-13 15:34         ` [lttng-dev] " Christophe Bédard via lttng-dev

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