powerpc: Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 8 Dec 2015 18:50:56 +0000 (13:50 -0500)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:27:28 +0000 (14:27 +1100)
commit35de3b1aa16842214e0cd7c6036daf4619294314
tree4a3718c699c1d85e56d27e7cd3af06c9f62cb1ee
parentc33e54fafacaf83b3e345aae0e241c1f152224a0
powerpc: Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing

It has come to my attention that kprobe event stack tracing does not
work on powerpc. You can see with the following:

  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  # echo stacktrace > trace_options
  # echo 'p kfree' > kprobe_events
  # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable

Will print the following warning:
  save_stack_trace_regs() not implemented yet.

Although save_stack_trace() (which normal event stack traces use) is
implemented, save_stack_trace_regs() which kprobe events use is not.
This is a cheap attempt to implement that function.

Note, This may have issues if a task tries to get a stack trace from
another task with its regs, because it just passes in "current" to
save_context_stack(). But this does solve the issue with stack tracing
kprobe events.

Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c