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Reliable stacktracing requires that we identify when a stacktrace is terminated early. We can do this by ensuring all tasks have a final frame record at a known location on their task stack, and checking that this is the final frame record in the chain. We'd like to use task_pt_regs(task)->stackframe as the final frame record, as this is already setup upon exception entry from EL0. For kernel tasks we need to consistently reserve the pt_regs and point x29 at this, which we can do with small changes to __primary_switched, __secondary_switched, and copy_process(). Since the final frame record must be at a specific location, we must create the final frame record in __primary_switched and __secondary_switched rather than leaving this to start_kernel and secondary_start_kernel. Thus, __primary_switched and __secondary_switched will now show up in stacktraces for the idle tasks. Since the final frame record is now identified by its location rather than by its contents, we identify it at the start of unwind_frame(), before we read any values from it. External debuggers may terminate the stack trace when FP == 0. In the pt_regs->stackframe, the PC is 0 as well. So, stack traces taken in the debugger may print an extra record 0x0 at the end. While this is not pretty, this does not do any harm. This is a small price to pay for having reliable stack trace termination in the kernel. That said, gdb does not show the extra record probably because it uses DWARF and not frame pointers for stack traces. Signed-off-by: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> [Mark: rebase, use ASM_BUG(), update comments, update commit message] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210510110026.18061-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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README
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.