Re: [PATCH 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Fri Feb 07 2025 - 12:53:02 EST


On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:16:29PM +0000, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> Weinan Liu <wnliu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Thank you for reporting this issue.
> > I just found out that Josh also intentionally uses '>' instead of '>=' for the same reason
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250122225257.h64ftfnorofe7cb4@jpoimboe/T/#m6d70a20ed9f5b3bbe5b24b24b8c5dcc603a79101
> >
> > QQ, do we need to care the stacktrace after '__noreturn' function?
>
> Yes, I think we should, but others people could add more to this.

FYI, here's how ORC handles this:

/*
* Find the orc_entry associated with the text address.
*
* For a call frame (as opposed to a signal frame), state->ip points to
* the instruction after the call. That instruction's stack layout
* could be different from the call instruction's layout, for example
* if the call was to a noreturn function. So get the ORC data for the
* call instruction itself.
*/
orc = orc_find(state->signal ? state->ip : state->ip - 1);

and state->signal is only set for exceptions/interrupts (including
preemption and page faults) and newly forked tasks which haven't run
yet.

--
Josh