This will help kmemcheck (and possibly other debugging tools) since we
can now simply pass regs->bp to the stack tracer instead of specifying
the number of stack frames to skip, which is unreliable if gcc decides
to inline functions, etc.
Note that this makes the API incomplete for other architectures, but I
expect that those can be updated lazily, e.g. when they need it.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Impact: cleanup
User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific.
Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86.
When other arches implement it, they will have to
SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature
Usage example:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
echo sched_switch >current_tracer
echo 1 >tracing_enabled
.... run application ...
echo 0 >tracing_enabled
Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'.
To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with
frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing).
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
include/linux/stacktrace.h:13: warning:
'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list
(This might be a hard error on sparc64, which uses this header and has
-Werror)
Reported-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the
scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
- Remove unused all_contexts parameter
No caller used it
- Move skip argument into the structure (needed for
followon patches)
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Framework to generate and save stacktraces quickly, without printing anything
to the console.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Vegard Nossum