The .eh_frame section contents is never written to, so it can as well
benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.

Diff-ed against firstfloor tree.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Now that binutils' ld is able to properly populate .eh_frame_hdr in the
Linux kernel case, here's a patch to add some functionality to the Dwarf2
unwinder to actually be able to make use of this (applies on firstfloor
tree with the previously sent patch to add debug output, but not on plain
2.6.19).
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Add debugging printks to the unwinder to allow easier debugging
when something goes wrong with it.

This can be controlled with the new unwinder_debug=N option
Most output is given by N=1

AK: Added documentation of unwinder_debug=
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Tighten the requirements on both input to and output from the Dwarf2
unwinder.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

This avoids trouble with the page fault handler if the fault
happens inside an interrupt context.

Suggested by Linus

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

This fixes a problem with gcc4 mis-compiling the stack unwind code under
-Os, which resulted in 'stuck' messages whenever an assembly routine was
encountered.

(The second hunk is trivial cleanup.)
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

This changes the dwarf2 unwinder to do a binary search for CIEs
instead of a linear work. The linker is unfortunately not
able to build a proper lookup table at link time, instead it creates
one at runtime as soon as the bootmem allocator is usable (so you'll continue
using the linear lookup for the first [hopefully] few calls).
The code should be ready to utilize a build-time created table once
a fixed linker becomes available.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Fix "variable defined but not used" compiler warning in unwind.c when
CONFIG_MODULES is not set.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.

This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information.  Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.

For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem.  The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.

It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.

This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame

[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Add proper conditionals to be able to build with CONFIG_MODULES=n.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If no unwinding is possible at all for a certain exception instance,
fall back to the old style call trace instead of not showing any trace
at all.

Also, allow setting the stack trace mode at the command line.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

These are the generic bits needed to enable reliable stack traces based
on Dwarf2-like (.eh_frame) unwind information. Subsequent patches will
enable x86-64 and i386 to make use of this.

Thanks to Andi Kleen and Ingo Molnar, who pointed out several possibilities
for improvement.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>