Re: [PATCH v10 01/11] arm64: Select STACKTRACE in arch/arm64/Kconfig

[Madhavan T. Venkataraman]

I reviewed the changes briefly. They look good. I will take a more detailed look this week.

Thanks for doing this!

Once this is part of v5.16-rc2, I will send out version 11 on top of that with the rest of
the patches in my series.

Madhavan

On 11/12/21 11:44 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 07:02:43PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:58:37PM -0500, madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Currently, there are multiple functions in ARM64 code that walk the
>>> stack using start_backtrace() and unwind_frame() or start_backtrace()
>>> and walk_stackframe(). They should all be converted to use
>>> arch_stack_walk(). This makes maintenance easier.
>>>
>>> To do that, arch_stack_walk() must always be defined. arch_stack_walk()
>>> is within #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE. So, select STACKTRACE in
>>> arch/arm64/Kconfig.
>>
>> I'd prefer if we could decouple ARCH_STACKWALK from STACKTRACE, so that
>> we don't have to expose /proc/*/stack unconditionally, which Peter
>> Zijlstra has a patch for:
>>
>>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211022152104.356586621@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> ... but regardless the rest of the series looks pretty good, so I'll go
>> review that, and we can figure out how to queue the bits and pieces in
>> the right order.
> 
> FWIW, it looks like the direction of travel there is not go and unify
> the various arch unwinders, but I would like to not depend on
> STACKTRACE. Regardless, the initial arch_stack_walk() cleanup patches
> all look good, so I reckon we should try to get those out of the way and
> queue those for arm64 soon even if we need some more back-and-forth over
> the later part of the series.
> 
> With that in mind, I've picked up Peter's patch decoupling
> ARCH_STACKWALK from STACKTRACE, and rebased the initial patches from
> this series atop. Since there's some subtltety in a few cases (and this
> was easy to miss while reviewing), I've expanded the commit messages
> with additional rationale as to why each transformation is safe.
> I've pushed that to:
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/stacktrace/arch-stack-walk
> 
> There's a dependency on:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211029162245.39761-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
> 
> ... which was queued for v5.16-rc1, but got dropped due to a conflict,
> and I'm expecting it to be re-queued as a fix for v5.16-rc2 shortly
> after v5.16-rc1 is tagged. Hopefully that means we have a table base by
> v5.16-rc2.
> 
> I'll send the preparatory series as I've prepared it shortly after
> v5.16-rc1 so that people can shout if I've messed something up.
> 
> Hopefully it's easy enough to use that as a base for the more involved
> rework later in this series.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mark.
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>> index fdcd54d39c1e..bfb0ce60d820 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ config ARM64
>>>  	select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
>>>  	select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
>>>  	select ARCH_STACKWALK
>>> +	select STACKTRACE
>>>  	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
>>>  	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
>>>  	select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE
>>> -- 
>>> 2.25.1
>>>