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| author | Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> | 2015-07-13 10:25:17 +0300 |
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| committer | Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> | 2015-07-13 11:03:18 +0300 |
| commit | f51e2f1911122879eefefa4c592dea8bf794b39c (patch) | |
| tree | 0c3998bad3cf40be28b82d587848f5f0e3ddb438 /arch/arc | |
| parent | b631788ab42ea4ba97dc30b3f47bad0edb0ddb4b (diff) | |
| download | linux-f51e2f1911122879eefefa4c592dea8bf794b39c.tar.xz | |
ARC: make sure instruction_pointer() returns unsigned value
Currently instruction_pointer() returns pt_regs->ret and so return value
is of type "long", which implicitly stands for "signed long".
While that's perfectly fine when dealing with 32-bit values if return
value of instruction_pointer() gets assigned to 64-bit variable sign
extension may happen.
And at least in one real use-case it happens already.
In perf_prepare_sample() return value of perf_instruction_pointer()
(which is an alias to instruction_pointer() in case of ARC) is assigned
to (struct perf_sample_data)->ip (which type is "u64").
And what we see if instuction pointer points to user-space application
that in case of ARC lays below 0x8000_0000 "ip" gets set properly with
leading 32 zeros. But if instruction pointer points to kernel address
space that starts from 0x8000_0000 then "ip" is set with 32 leadig
"f"-s. I.e. id instruction_pointer() returns 0x8100_0000, "ip" will be
assigned with 0xffff_ffff__8100_0000. Which is obviously wrong.
In particular that issuse broke output of perf, because perf was unable
to associate addresses like 0xffff_ffff__8100_0000 with anything from
/proc/kallsyms.
That's what we used to see:
----------->8----------
6.27% ls [unknown] [k] 0xffffffff8046c5cc
2.96% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] memcpy
2.25% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] memset
1.66% ls [unknown] [k] 0xffffffff80666536
1.54% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] 0x000224d6
1.18% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] 0x00022472
----------->8----------
With that change perf output looks much better now:
----------->8----------
8.21% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset
3.52% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] memcpy
2.11% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] malloc
1.88% ls libuClibc-0.9.34-git.so [.] memset
1.64% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
1.41% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __d_lookup_rcu
----------->8----------
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: arc-linux-dev@synopsys.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/ptrace.h index 91755972b9a2..91694ec1ce95 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/ptrace.h @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct callee_regs { long r25, r24, r23, r22, r21, r20, r19, r18, r17, r16, r15, r14, r13; }; -#define instruction_pointer(regs) ((regs)->ret) +#define instruction_pointer(regs) (unsigned long)((regs)->ret) #define profile_pc(regs) instruction_pointer(regs) /* return 1 if user mode or 0 if kernel mode */ |