Re: [PATCH] ARM64: perf: support dwarf unwinding in compat mode

[Jean Pihet]

Hi Will,

Here is an updated version of the change, which uses compat_sp at only
one place.
The drawback is that compat_user_mode is checked when calling
compat_user_stack_pointer, which seems unnecessary. Unfortunately the
check is not optimized out by the complier as I could check with
objdump -S.

What do you think?

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/compat.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/compat.h
index fda2704..e71f81f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static inline compat_uptr_t ptr_to_compat(void __user *uptr)
        return (u32)(unsigned long)uptr;
 }

-#define compat_user_stack_pointer() (current_pt_regs()->compat_sp)
+#define compat_user_stack_pointer() (user_stack_pointer(current_pt_regs()))

 static inline void __user *arch_compat_alloc_user_space(long len)
 {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
index fbb0020..86d5b54 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ struct pt_regs {
        (!((regs)->pstate & PSR_F_BIT))

 #define user_stack_pointer(regs) \
-       ((regs)->sp)
+       (!compat_user_mode(regs)) ? ((regs)->sp) : ((regs)->compat_sp)

 /*
  * Are the current registers suitable for user mode? (used to maintain



Regards,
Jean

On 17 January 2014 11:07, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:00:09AM +0000, Jean Pihet wrote:
>> On 16 January 2014 14:47, Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> So the simplest thing would be to make compat_user_stack_pointer expand to
>> >> user_stack_pointer(current_pt_regs()) on arm64 and merge that in with your
>> >> original patch fixing user_stack_pointer.
>>
>> I see 2 issues in your proposal:
>>
>> 1) user_stack_pointer(regs) calls compat_user_stack_pointer if
>> compat_user_mode(regs)) and compat_user_stack_pointer expands to
>> user_stack_pointer. I see a circular dependency in the macros.
>
> Not today it doesn't, so you just need to avoid writing the circular
> dependency and instead make user_stack_pointer access (regs)->compat_sp
> instead.
>
>> 2) current_pt_regs() returns the current task regs although perf
>> passes a regs struct that had been recorded previously.
>
> Yes, but compat_user_stack_pointer doesn't take a regs paramater anyway, so
> there's no change in behaviour here.
>
> Will
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