[PATCH 2/7] dump_stack: Add vmlinux build ID to stack traces

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Mar 01 2021 - 18:05:08 EST


Add the running kernel's build ID to the stacktrace information header.
This makes it simpler for developers to locate the vmlinux with full
debug info for a particular kernel stacktrace. Combined with
scripts/decode_stracktrace.sh a developer can download the correct
vmlinux from a debuginfod server and find the exact line number and file
for the functions in a stacktrace.

This is especially useful for pstore or crash debugging where the kernel
crashes and the recovery kernel may be different or the debug symbols
don't exist on the device due to space concerns. The stacktrace can be
analyzed after the crash with the matching vmlinux to understand where
in the function something went wrong.

Example stacktrace from lkdtm:

WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 3255 at drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c:83 lkdtm_WARNING+0x28/0x30 [lkdtm]
Modules linked in: lkdtm rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg xt_cgroup uinput xt_MASQUERADE
CPU: 4 PID: 3255 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.11 #3 aa23f7a1231c229de205662d5a9e0d4c580f19a1
Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3+) with KB Backlight (DT)
pstate: 00400009 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : lkdtm_WARNING+0x28/0x30 [lkdtm]
lr : lkdtm_do_action+0x24/0x40 [lkdtm]
sp : ffffffc0134fbca0
x29: ffffffc0134fbca0 x28: ffffff92d53ba240
x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffe3622352c0
x23: 0000000000000020 x22: ffffffe362233366
x21: ffffffe3622352e0 x20: ffffffc0134fbde0
x19: 0000000000000008 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: ffffff929b6536fc x16: 0000000000000000
x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000012
x13: ffffffe380ed892c x12: ffffffe381d05068
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
x9 : 0000000000000001 x8 : ffffffe362237000
x7 : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : ffffff93fef25a70
x1 : ffffff93fef15788 x0 : ffffffe3622352e0
Call trace:
lkdtm_WARNING+0x28/0x30 [lkdtm]
direct_entry+0x16c/0x1b4 [lkdtm]
full_proxy_write+0x74/0xa4
vfs_write+0xec/0x2e8
ksys_write+0x84/0xf0
__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
el0_svc_common+0xf4/0x1c0
do_el0_svc_compat+0x28/0x3c
el0_svc_compat+0x10/0x1c
el0_sync_compat_handler+0xa8/0xcc
el0_sync_compat+0x178/0x180
---[ end trace 3d95032303e59e68 ]---

The hex string aa23f7a1231c229de205662d5a9e0d4c580f19a1 is the build ID,
following the kernel version number.

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/dump_stack.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/dump_stack.c b/lib/dump_stack.c
index f5a33b6f773f..a13f3ea218d3 100644
--- a/lib/dump_stack.c
+++ b/lib/dump_stack.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
*/

#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/buildid.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
@@ -45,13 +46,13 @@ void __init dump_stack_set_arch_desc(const char *fmt, ...)
*/
void dump_stack_print_info(const char *log_lvl)
{
- printk("%sCPU: %d PID: %d Comm: %.20s %s%s %s %.*s\n",
+ printk("%sCPU: %d PID: %d Comm: %.20s %s%s %s %.*s %s\n",
log_lvl, raw_smp_processor_id(), current->pid, current->comm,
kexec_crash_loaded() ? "Kdump: loaded " : "",
print_tainted(),
init_utsname()->release,
(int)strcspn(init_utsname()->version, " "),
- init_utsname()->version);
+ init_utsname()->version, vmlinux_build_id());

if (dump_stack_arch_desc_str[0] != '\0')
printk("%sHardware name: %s\n",
--
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