Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 7/2/21 5:37 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:34:34PM +0200, glittao@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Oliver Glitta <glittao@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Many stack traces are similar so there are many similar arrays.
>> Stackdepot saves each unique stack only once.
>>
>> Replace field addrs in struct track with depot_stack_handle_t handle.
>> Use stackdepot to save stack trace.
>>
>> The benefits are smaller memory overhead and possibility to aggregate
>> per-cache statistics in the future using the stackdepot handle
>> instead of matching stacks manually.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Oliver Glitta <glittao@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> With arcv2:allnoconfig, this patch results in:
> 
> Building arcv2:allnoconfig ... failed
> --------------
> Error log:
> arc-elf-ld: lib/stackdepot.o: in function `filter_irq_stacks':
> stackdepot.c:(.text+0x43a): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_start'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x43a): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_start'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x45a): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_end'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x45a): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_end'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x468): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_start'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x468): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_start'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x470): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_end'
> arc-elf-ld: stackdepot.c:(.text+0x470): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_end'

Looks to me this patch exposed an existing problem in stackdepot that's
a result of 505a0ef15f96c "kasan: stackdepot: move filter_irq_stacks()
to stackdepot.c". Looks like that commit added the necessary symbols to
a number of arch's vmlinux.lds.S but not arcv2. Alexander?

What the slub patch does is just to have stackdepot built when
SLUB_DEBUG is enabled:

select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT

But that was already possible with PAGE_OWNER:

config PAGE_OWNER
    depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
    select STACKDEPOT

AFAICS there's nothing to prevent this config on arcv2.
We could perhaps exclude arcv2 but maybe it's easier just to fix up
505a0ef15f96c there?



> 
> Guenter
> 
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