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    tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer · 301fd748
    Steven Rostedt authored
    
    
    Maneesh Soni was getting a crash when running the wakeup tracer.
    We debugged it down to the recording of the function with the
    CALLER_ADDR2 macro.  This is used to get the location of the caller
    to schedule.
    
    But the problem comes when schedule is called by assmebly. In the case
    that Maneesh had, retint_careful would call schedule. But retint_careful
    does not set up a proper frame pointer. CALLER_ADDR2 is defined as
    __builtin_return_address(2). This produces the following assembly in
    the wakeup tracer code.
    
       mov    0x0(%rbp),%rcx  <--- get the frame pointer of the caller
       mov    %r14d,%r8d
       mov    0xf2de8e(%rip),%rdi
    
       mov    0x8(%rcx),%rsi  <-- this is __builtin_return_address(1)
       mov    0x28(%rdi,%rax,8),%rbx
    
       mov    (%rcx),%rax  <-- get the frame pointer of the caller's caller
       mov    %r12,%rcx
       mov    0x8(%rax),%rdx <-- this is __builtin_return_address(2)
    
    At the reading of 0x8(%rax) Maneesh's machine would take a fault.
    The reason is that retint_careful did not set up the return address
    and the content of %rax here was zero.
    
    To verify this, I sent Maneesh a patch to create a frame pointer
    in retint_careful. He ran the test again but this time he would take
    the same type of fault from sysret_careful. The retint_careful was no
    longer an issue, but there are other callers that still have issues.
    
    Instead of adding frame pointers for all callers to schedule (in possibly
    all archs), it is much safer to simply not use CALLER_ADDR2. This
    loses out on knowing what called schedule, but the function tracer
    will help there if needed.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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