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SubjectRe: [RFC] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again
On 02/23/2014 03:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Right now when people try to report issues in the kernel they send stack
>> dumps to eachother, which looks something like this:
>>
>> [ 6.906437] [<ffffffff811f0e90>] ? backtrace_test_irq_callback+0x20/0x20
>> [ 6.907121] [<ffffffff84388ce8>] dump_stack+0x52/0x7f
>> [ 6.907640] [<ffffffff811f0ec8>] backtrace_regression_test+0x38/0x110
>> [ 6.908281] [<ffffffff813596a0>] ? proc_create_data+0xa0/0xd0
>> [ 6.908870] [<ffffffff870a8040>] ? proc_modules_init+0x22/0x22
>> [ 6.909480] [<ffffffff810020c2>] do_one_initcall+0xc2/0x1e0
>> [...]
>>
>> However, most of the text you get is pure garbage.
>
> I'd like to fix that, but I'd like to fix it in the kernel, and just
> stop printing the hex addresses entirely.
>
> However, your kind of script actually makes that worse, in that it
> uses the redundant hex addresses for 'addr2line', and that tool is
> known to not work with symbolic addresses, only with actual numerical
> ones.
>
> So I would *really* want to do this kernel change (possibly
> conditional on RANDOMIZE_BASE_ADDRESS or whatever the config variable
> is called):
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
> index d9c12d3022a7..58039e728f00 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
> @@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ static int die_counter;
>
> static void printk_stack_address(unsigned long address, int reliable)
> {
> - pr_cont(" [<%p>] %s%pB\n",
> - (void *)address, reliable ? "" : "? ", (void *)address);
> + pr_cont(" %s[<%pB>]\n", reliable ? "" : "? ", (void *)address);
> }
>
> void printk_address(unsigned long address)
> {
> - pr_cont(" [<%p>] %pS\n", (void *)address, (void *)address);
> + pr_cont(" [<%pS>]\n", (void *)address);
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
>
> which would make the kernel stack traces much prettier.
>
> But that would require that there be a "resolve symbolic address" (if
> CONFIG_KALLSYMS isn't enabled, it would still be hexadecimal) for the
> address inside the [<>] thing..
>
> I don't know of any sane tool that does that directly, but it
> shouldn't be *that* hard. You can *almost* do it with
>
> echo "p backtrace_regression_test+0x38" | gdb vmlinux
>
> but you see the problem if you try that ;)

I've looked into doing it in the kernel, but it seems that it would require a rather
large code addition just to deal with getting pretty line numbers.

Unless I'm missing something big, is it really worth it?


Thanks,
Sasha



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