Re: [RFC patch] vsprintf: Add %pav extension for print_vma_addr

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 27 2015 - 17:04:15 EST


On Tue, 26 May 2015 16:05:04 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> print_vma_addr is another function to emit useful
> data similar to print_symbol. The print_symbol
> functionality has been added via %p[fFsS] vsprintf
> extensions.
>
> Perhaps it's appropriate to add vma_addr address
> decoding to vsprintf too.
>
> This would allow code conversions where the very
> unlikely interleaving of messages from multiple
> threads might occur.
>
> like arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:
>
> from:
> if (show_unhandled_signals && unhandled_signal(tsk, signr) &&
> printk_ratelimit()) {
> pr_info("%s[%d] trap %s ip:%lx sp:%lx error:%lx",
> tsk->comm, tsk->pid, str,
> regs->ip, regs->sp, error_code);
> print_vma_addr(" in ", regs->ip);
> pr_cont("\n");
> to:
> pr_info("%s[%d] trap %s ip:%lx sp:%lx error:%lx in %pav\n",
> regs->ip, regs->sp, error_code, &regs->ip);
> }
>
> Something like:
>
> ...
>
> @@ -1313,23 +1313,70 @@ char *netdev_feature_string(char *buf, char *end, const u8 *addr,
> }
>
> static noinline_for_stack
> +char *vma_addr(char *buf, char *end, const void *addr,
> + struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt)
> +{
> + struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> + unsigned long ip = *(unsigned long *)addr;
> + char *rtn;
> +
> + /* if we are in atomic contexts (in exception stacks, etc.) */
> + if (preempt_count())
> + return string(buf, end, "(atomic context)", spec);

Problems when CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.

> + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + vma = find_vma(mm, ip);
> + if (vma && vma->vm_file) {
> + struct file *f = vma->vm_file;
> + char *gfp_buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);

We shouldn't assume we can use GFP_KERNEL here. Even if the
preempt_count() worked, we might be in a context which requires
GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO.

> + if (gfp_buf) {
> + char *p = d_path(&f->f_path, gfp_buf, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + if (IS_ERR(p))
> + p = "?";
> +
> + rtn = buf + snprintf(buf, end > buf ? end - buf : 0,
> + "%s[%lx+%lx]",
> + kbasename(p),
> + vma->vm_start,
> + vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start);
> +
> + free_page((unsigned long)gfp_buf);
> + } else {
> + rtn = string(buf, end, "(__get_free_page failed)", spec);
> + }
> + } else {
> + rtn = string(buf, end, "(find_vma failed)", spec);
> + }
> +
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +
> + return rtn;
> +}
>
> ...
>
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