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SubjectRe: [syzbot] KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in profile_pc
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:30:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > We could just use ORC to unwind to the next frame. Though, isn't
> > > /proc/profile redundant, compared to all the more sophisticated options
> > > nowadays? Is there still a distinct use case for it or can we just
> > > remove it?
> >
> > It's still needed for some special cases. For example there is no other
> > viable way to profile early boot without a VM
> >
> > I would just drop the hack to unwind, at least for the early boot profile
> > use case locking profiling is usually not needed.
>
> Surely we can cook up something else there and delete this thing? ftrace
> buffers are available really early, it shouldn't be hard to dump some
> data in there during boot.

True, ftrace does have function profiling (function_profile_enabled).

Steve, is there a way to enable that on the kernel cmdline?

--
Josh

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