linux/arch
Frederic Weisbecker af2d8289f5 x86: Fixup wrong irq frame link in stacktraces
When we enter in irq, two things can happen to preserve the link
to the previous frame pointer:

- If we were in an irq already, we don't switch to the irq stack
  as we are inside. We just need to save the previous frame
  pointer and to link the new one to the previous.

- Otherwise we need another level of indirection. We enter the irq with
  the previous stack. We save the previous bp inside and make bp
  pointing to its saved address. Then we switch to the irq stack and
  push bp another time but to the new stack. This makes two levels to
  dereference instead of one.

In the second case, the current stacktrace code omits the second level
and loses the frame pointer accuracy. The stack that follows will then
be considered as unreliable.

Handling that makes the perf callchain happier.
Before:

43.94%  [k] _raw_read_lock
            |
            --- _read_lock
               |
               |--60.53%-- send_sigio
               |          __kill_fasync
               |          kill_fasync
               |          evdev_pass_event
               |          evdev_event
               |          input_pass_event
               |          input_handle_event
               |          input_event
               |          synaptics_process_byte
               |          psmouse_handle_byte
               |          psmouse_interrupt
               |          serio_interrupt
               |          i8042_interrupt
               |          handle_IRQ_event
               |          handle_edge_irq
               |          handle_irq
               |          __irqentry_text_start
               |          ret_from_intr
               |          |
               |          |--30.43%-- __select
               |          |
               |          |--17.39%-- 0x454f15
               |          |
               |          |--13.04%-- __read
               |          |
               |          |--13.04%-- vread_hpet
               |          |
               |          |--13.04%-- _xcb_lock_io
               |          |
               |           --13.04%-- 0x7f630878ce8

After:

    50.00%  [k] _raw_read_lock
            |
            --- _read_lock
               |
               |--98.97%-- send_sigio
               |          __kill_fasync
               |          kill_fasync
               |          evdev_pass_event
               |          evdev_event
               |          input_pass_event
               |          input_handle_event
               |          input_event
               |          |
               |          |--96.88%-- synaptics_process_byte
               |          |          psmouse_handle_byte
               |          |          psmouse_interrupt
               |          |          serio_interrupt
               |          |          i8042_interrupt
               |          |          handle_IRQ_event
               |          |          handle_edge_irq
               |          |          handle_irq
               |          |          __irqentry_text_start
               |          |          ret_from_intr
               |          |          |
               |          |          |--39.78%-- __const_udelay
               |          |          |          |
               |          |          |          |--91.89%-- ath5k_hw_register_timeout
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_hw_reset
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_reset
               |          |          |          |          ath5k_config
               |          |          |          |          ieee80211_hw_config
               |          |          |          |          |
               |          |          |          |          |--88.24%-- ieee80211_scan_work
               |          |          |          |          |          worker_thread
               |          |          |          |          |          kthread
               |          |          |          |          |          child_rip
               |          |          |          |          |
               |          |          |          |           --11.76%-- ieee80211_scan_completed
               |          |          |          |                     ieee80211_scan_work
               |          |          |          |                     worker_thread
               |          |          |          |                     kthread
               |          |          |          |                     child_rip
               |          |          |          |
               |          |          |           --8.11%-- ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
               |          |          |                     ath5k_hw_reset
               |          |          |                     ath5k_reset
               |          |          |                     ath5k_config

Note: This does not only affect perf events but also x86-64
stacktraces. They were considered as unreliable once we quit
the irq stack frame.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-06 08:27:24 +01:00
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alpha alpha: move THREAD_SIZE definition outside #ifndef ASSEMBLY 2009-11-12 07:25:56 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2009-11-12 14:57:15 -08:00
avr32 at91: at91sam9g45 family: identify several chip versions 2009-11-03 18:42:31 +01:00
blackfin headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
cris const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
frv frv: fix check on unsigned in do_signal() 2009-10-29 07:39:32 -07:00
h8300 h8300: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. 2009-09-24 17:16:22 -07:00
ia64 Revert "[IA64] fix percpu warnings" 2009-11-02 09:23:08 -08:00
m32r m32r: fix arch/m32r/boot/compressed/Makefile 2009-11-09 09:00:50 +09:00
m68k tty: Mark generic_serial users as BROKEN 2009-10-30 14:43:12 -07:00
m68knommu m68knommu: fix rename of pt_regs offset defines breakage 2009-09-30 10:06:07 +10:00
microblaze microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after saving it to func parametr 2009-10-05 11:37:47 +02:00
mips MIPS: O32: Fix ppoll 2009-11-02 12:00:08 +01:00
mn10300 mn10300: fix kernel build failures when using gcc-4.x 2009-10-01 16:11:12 -07:00
parisc parisc: Fix linker script breakage. 2009-09-28 00:25:07 -04:00
powerpc Merge branches 'perf/powerpc' and 'perf/bench' into perf/core 2009-11-15 09:51:24 +01:00
s390 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc6' into perf/core 2009-11-04 11:59:45 +01:00
score Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next 2009-09-23 15:37:02 -07:00
sh sh: Replace old style lock initializer 2009-11-09 10:47:40 +09:00
sparc sparc: Move of_set_property_mutex acquisition outside of devtree_lock grab. 2009-11-08 17:41:20 -08:00
um headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
x86 x86: Fixup wrong irq frame link in stacktraces 2009-12-06 08:27:24 +01:00
xtensa headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00