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To enable RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and LIVEPATCH on arm64, we need to substantially rework arm64's unwinding code. As part of this, we want to minimize the set of unwind interfaces we expose, and avoid open-coding of unwind logic. Currently, dump_backtrace() walks the stack of the current task or a blocked task by calling stact_backtrace() and iterating unwind steps using unwind_frame(). This can be written more simply in terms of arch_stack_walk(), considering three distinct cases: 1) When unwinding a blocked task, start_backtrace() is called with the blocked task's saved PC and FP, and the unwind proceeds immediately from this point without skipping any entries. This is functionally equivalent to calling arch_stack_walk() with the blocked task, which will start with the task's saved PC and FP. There is no functional change to this case. 2) When unwinding the current task without regs, start_backtrace() is called with dump_backtrace() as the PC and __builtin_frame_address(0) as the next frame, and the unwind proceeds immediately without skipping. This is *almost* functionally equivalent to calling arch_stack_walk() for the current task, which will start with its caller (i.e. an offset into dump_backtrace()) as the PC, and the callers frame record as the next frame. The only difference being that dump_backtrace() will be reported with an offset (which is strictly more correct than currently). Otherwise there is no functional cahnge to this case. 3) When unwinding the current task with regs, start_backtrace() is called with dump_backtrace() as the PC and __builtin_frame_address(0) as the next frame, and the unwind is performed silently until the next frame is the frame pointed to by regs->fp. Reporting starts from regs->pc and continues from the frame in regs->fp. Historically, this pre-unwind was necessary to correctly record return addresses rewritten by the ftrace graph calller, but this is no longer necessary as these are now recovered using the FP since commit: |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.