The "Power Architecture 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI" says in section 2.3.2.3:

[...] There are several rules that must be adhered to in order to ensure
reliable and consistent call chain backtracing:

* Before a function calls any other function, it shall establish its
  own stack frame, whose size shall be a multiple of 16 bytes.

 – In instances where a function’s prologue creates a stack frame, the
   back-chain word of the stack frame shall be updated atomically with
   the value of the stack pointer (r1) when a back chain is implemented.
   (This must be supported as default by all ELF V2 ABI-compliant
   environments.)
[...]
 – The function shall save the link register that contains its return
   address in the LR save doubleword of its caller’s stack frame before
   calling another function.

To me this sounds like the equivalent of HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.
This patch may be unneccessarily limited to ppc64le, but OTOH the only
user of this flag so far is livepatching, which is only implemented on
PPCs with 64-LE, a.k.a. ELF ABI v2.

Feel free to add other ppc variants, but so far only ppc64le got tested.

This change also implements save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() for ppc64le
that checks for the above conditions, where possible.
Signed-off-by: NTorsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

For the current task, the kernel stack would only tell the last time the
process was rescheduled, if ever. Use the current stack pointer for the
current task.

Otherwise, every once in a while, the stacktrace printed when reading
/proc/self/stack would look like the process is running in userspace,
while it's not, which some may consider as a bug.

This is also consistent with some other architectures, like x86 and arm,
at least.
Signed-off-by: NThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

It has come to my attention that kprobe event stack tracing does not
work on powerpc. You can see with the following:

  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  # echo stacktrace > trace_options
  # echo 'p kfree' > kprobe_events
  # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable

Will print the following warning:
  save_stack_trace_regs() not implemented yet.

Although save_stack_trace() (which normal event stack traces use) is
implemented, save_stack_trace_regs() which kprobe events use is not.
This is a cheap attempt to implement that function.

Note, This may have issues if a task tries to get a stack trace from
another task with its regs, because it just passes in "current" to
save_context_stack(). But this does solve the issue with stack tracing
kprobe events.
Reported-by: NChunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Michael points out that __get_SP() is a pretty horrible
function name. Let's give it a better name.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Li Zhong points out an issue with our current __get_SP()
implementation. If ftrace function tracing is enabled (ie -pg
profiling using _mcount) we spill a stack frame on 64bit all the
time.

If a function calls __get_SP() and later calls a function that is
tail call optimised, we will pop the stack frame and the value
returned by __get_SP() is no longer valid. An example from Li can
be found in save_stack_trace -> save_context_stack:

c0000000000432c0 <.save_stack_trace>:
c0000000000432c0:       mflr    r0
c0000000000432c4:       std     r0,16(r1)
c0000000000432c8:       stdu    r1,-128(r1) <-- stack frame for _mcount
c0000000000432cc:       std     r3,112(r1)
c0000000000432d0:       bl      <._mcount>
c0000000000432d4:       nop

c0000000000432d8:       mr      r4,r1 <-- __get_SP()

c0000000000432dc:       ld      r5,632(r13)
c0000000000432e0:       ld      r3,112(r1)
c0000000000432e4:       li      r6,1

c0000000000432e8:       addi    r1,r1,128 <-- pop stack frame

c0000000000432ec:       ld      r0,16(r1)
c0000000000432f0:       mtlr    r0
c0000000000432f4:       b       <.save_context_stack> <-- tail call optimized

save_context_stack ends up with a stack pointer below the current
one, and it is likely to be scribbled over.

Fix this by making __get_SP() a function which returns the
callers stack frame. Also replace inline assembly which grabs
the stack pointer in save_stack_trace and show_stack with
__get_SP().

This also fixes an issue with perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs().
It currently unwinds the stack once, which will skip a
valid stack frame on a leaf function. With the __get_SP() fixes
in this patch, we never need to unwind the stack frame to get
to the first interesting frame.

We have to export __get_SP() because perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs()
(which is used in modules) calls it from a header file.
Reported-by: NLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Removed duplicated include file <linux/module.h> in
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c.
Signed-off-by: NHuang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We need to pass the kernel stack pointer instead of the user space
stack pointer in save_stack_trace_tsk().
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Implement save_stack_trace_tsk on powerpc, so that we can run with
latencytop.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Today's linux-next build (powerpc allmodconfig) failed like this:

ERROR: ".save_stack_trace" [tests/backtracetest.ko] undefined!

But save_stack_trace is exported in arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c

I couldn't figure it out until I noticed these earlier warnings:

arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration

I applied the patch below.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Andrew Morton reported this against linux-next:

ERROR: ".save_stack_trace" [tests/backtracetest.ko] undefined!
Reported-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove the inclusion of asm-offsets.h from stacktrace.c.  It isn't
supposed to be included in C code and it causes problems with multiple
definitions of things.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

This adds stacktrace support for powerpc, which will be needed for
lockdep.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>