Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces intracing/iter_ctrl

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 03:38:13 EST



* Török Edwin <edwintorok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +struct stack_frame {
> + const void __user *next_fp;
> + unsigned long return_address;
> +};

Small detail: please s/return_address/ret_addr - its expressive power
is the same but as a bonus it will cause less col-80 related
linebreaks in usage sites.

> +void save_stack_trace_user(struct stack_trace *trace)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Trace user stack if we are not a kernel thread
> + */
> + if (current->mm) {
> + const struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(current);
> + const void __user *fp = (const void __user *)regs->bp;
> +
> + if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
> + trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = regs->ip;
> +
> + while (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries) {
> + struct stack_frame frame;
> + frame.next_fp = NULL;

Style: put a newline after variable definitions please.

> + frame.return_address = 0;
> + if (!copy_stack_frame(fp, &frame))
> + break;
> + if ((unsigned long)fp < regs->sp)
> + break;
> + if (frame.return_address)
> + trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] =
> + frame.return_address;

Style: please use curly braces around multi-line conditional
statements.

> + if (fp == frame.next_fp)
> + break;
> + fp = frame.next_fp;
> + }
> + }

Detail: please move the whole "if (current->mm)" into a
__save_stack_trace_user() helper function - that way it reads cleaner.

> +++ b/include/linux/stacktrace.h
> @@ -18,9 +18,17 @@ extern void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk,
> struct stack_trace *trace);
>
> extern void print_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace, int spaces);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +extern void save_stack_trace_user(struct stack_trace *trace);
> +#else
> +# define save_stack_trace_user(trace) do { } while (0)
> +#endif

Bug: this should not be CONFIG_X86. Please introduce (in a separate
patch from other cleanups) a CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT in
arch/x86/Kconfig and use that instead.

> +
> #else
> # define save_stack_trace(trace) do { } while (0)
> # define save_stack_trace_tsk(tsk, trace) do { } while (0)
> +# define save_stack_trace_user(trace) do { } while (0)

Style: these should be tabs, not spaces ^^^^^^^^^^^^

> +static void ftrace_trace_userstack(struct trace_array *tr,
> + struct trace_array_cpu *data,
> + unsigned long flags, int pc)
> +{
> + struct userstack_entry *entry;
> + struct stack_trace trace;
> + struct ring_buffer_event *event;
> + unsigned long irq_flags;

Detail: please use the customary ftrace variable definitions style:

> + struct ring_buffer_event *event;
> + struct userstack_entry *entry;
> + struct stack_trace trace;
> + unsigned long irq_flags;

note how it's ordered by line length.

> +static int
> +seq_print_userip_objs(const struct userstack_entry *entry, struct trace_seq *s,
> + unsigned long sym_flags)
> +{
> + int ret = 1;
> + unsigned i;

Detail: please use "unsigned int" so that we have less type patterns
to look for.

> +
> + for (i = 0; i < FTRACE_STACK_ENTRIES; i++) {
> + unsigned long ip = entry->caller[i];
> +
> + if (ip == ULONG_MAX || !ret)
> + break;
> + if (i)
> + ret = trace_seq_puts(s, " <- ");
> + if (!ip) {
> + ret = trace_seq_puts(s, "??");
> + continue;
> + }
> + if (ret /*&& (sym_flags & TRACE_ITER_SYM_ADDR)*/)
> + ret = trace_seq_printf(s, " <" IP_FMT ">", ip);

Detail: do we need that commented-out condition?

Ingo
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