On 11/01/15 23:37, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 16:48:01 +0000
> Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:19:25AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:54:58 +0000
>>> Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> +/* For reliability, we're prepared to waste bits here. */
>>>> +static DECLARE_BITMAP(backtrace_mask, NR_CPUS) __read_mostly;
>>>> +static cpumask_t printtrace_mask;
>>>> +
>>>> +#define NMI_BUF_SIZE 4096
>>>> +
>>>> +struct nmi_seq_buf {
>>>> + unsigned char buffer[NMI_BUF_SIZE];
>>>> + struct seq_buf seq;
>>>> +};
>>
>> Am I missing something or does this limit us to 4096 characters of
>> backtrace output per CPU?
>>
>>> This is the same code as in x86. I wonder if we should move the
>>> duplicate code into kernel/printk/ and have it compiled if the arch
>>> requests it (CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_NMI_PRINTK or something). That way we
>>> don't have 20 copies of the same nmi_vprintk() and later find that we
>>> need to change it, and have to change it in 20 different archs.
>>
>> Agreed, though I wonder about the buffer size.
>>
>
> Have we had kernel back traces bigger than that? Since the stack size
> is limited to page size, it would seem dangerous if backtraces filled
> up a page size itself, as most function frames are bigger than the
> typical 60 bytes of data per line.
>
> We could change that hard coded 4096 to PAGE_SIZE, for those archs with
> bigger pages.
I've just updated the patchset with a couple of patches to common up the
printk code between arm and x86.
Just for the record I haven't changed the hard coded 4096 as part of
this. I'd be quite happy to but I didn't want to introduce any "secret"
changes to the code whilst the patch header claims I am just copying stuff.
Daniel.
> Also, if the backtrace were to fill up that much. Most the pertinent
> data from a back trace is at the beginning of the trace. Seldom do we
> care about the top most callers (bottom of the output).
>
> -- Steve
>
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