[patch 3/8] x86: Improve the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer toalso use the traditional backtrace

[Arjan van de Ven]

Subject: x86: Improve the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer to also use the traditional backtrace
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer code checks if the EBP is valid
to do a backtrace; however currently on a failure it just gives up
and prints nothing. That's not very nice; we can do better and still
print a decent backtrace. 

This patch changes the backtracer to use the regular backtracing algorithm
at the same time as the EBP backtracer; the EBP backtracer is basically
used to figure out which part of the backtrace are reliable vs those
which are likely to be noise.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc7/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc7.orig/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc7/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
@@ -117,36 +117,32 @@ static inline unsigned long print_contex
 				unsigned long *stack, unsigned long ebp,
 				const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data)
 {
-#ifdef	CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
 	struct stack_frame *frame = (struct stack_frame *)ebp;
-	while (valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, frame, sizeof(*frame))) {
-		struct stack_frame *next;
-		unsigned long addr;
 
-		addr = frame->return_address;
-		if (__kernel_text_address(addr))
-			ops->address(data, addr, 1);
-		/*
-		 * break out of recursive entries (such as
-		 * end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function). Also,
-		 * we can never allow a frame pointer to
-		 * move downwards!
-		 */
-		next = frame->next_frame;
-		ebp = (unsigned long) next;
-		if (next <= frame)
-			break;
-		frame = next;
-	}
-#else
+	/*
+	 * if EBP is "deeper" into the stack than the actual stack pointer,
+	 * we need to rewind the stack pointer a little to start at the
+	 * first stack frame, but only if EBP is in this stack frame.
+	 */
+	if (stack > (unsigned long *) ebp
+			&& valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
+		stack = (unsigned long *) ebp;
+
 	while (valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, stack, sizeof(*stack))) {
 		unsigned long addr;
 
-		addr = *stack++;
-		if (__kernel_text_address(addr))
-			ops->address(data, addr, 1);
+		addr = *stack;
+		if (__kernel_text_address(addr)) {
+			if ((unsigned long) stack == ebp + 4) {
+				ops->address(data, addr, 1);
+				frame = frame->next_frame;
+				ebp = (unsigned long) frame;
+			} else {
+				ops->address(data, addr, 0);
+			}
+		}
+		stack++;
 	}
-#endif
 	return ebp;
 }
 


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