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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 outside of stacktrace.c. Currently perf_callchain_kernel() walks the stack of an interrupted context by calling start_backtrace() with the context's PC and FP, and iterating unwind steps using walk_stackframe(). This is functionally equivalent to calling arch_stack_walk() with the interrupted context's pt_regs, which will start with the PC and FP from the regs. Make perf_callchain_kernel() use arch_stack_walk(). This simplifies perf_callchain_kernel(), and in future will alow us to make walk_stackframe() private to stacktrace.c. At the same time, we update the callchain_trace() callback to check the return value of perf_callchain_store(), which indicates whether there is space for any further entries. When a non-zero value is returned, further calls will be ignored, and are redundant, so we can stop the unwind at this point. We also remove the stale and confusing comment for callchain_trace. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [Mark: elaborate commit message, remove comment, fix includes] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129142849.3056714-5-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> |
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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.