tracing: Skip more functions when doing stack tracing of events
# echo 1 > options/stacktrace # echo 1 > events/sched/sched_switch/enable # cat trace <idle>-0 [002] d..2 1982.525169: <stack trace> => save_stack_trace => __ftrace_trace_stack => trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs => event_trigger_unlock_commit => trace_event_buffer_commit => trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch => __schedule => schedule => schedule_preempt_disabled => cpu_startup_entry => start_secondary The above shows that we are seeing 6 functions before ever making it to the caller of the sched_switch event. # echo stacktrace > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger # cat trace <idle>-0 [002] d..3 2146.335208: <stack trace> => trace_event_buffer_commit => trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch => __schedule => schedule => schedule_preempt_disabled => cpu_startup_entry => start_secondary The stacktrace trigger isn't as bad, because it adds its own skip to the stacktracing, but still has two events extra. One issue is that if the stacktrace passes its own "regs" then there should be no addition to the skip, as the regs will not include the functions being called. This was an issue that was fixed by commit 7717c6be ("tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()" as adding the skip number for kprobes made the probes not have any stack at all. But since this is only an issue when regs is being used, a skip should be added if regs is NULL. Now we have: # echo 1 > options/stacktrace # echo 1 > events/sched/sched_switch/enable # cat trace <idle>-0 [000] d..2 1297.676333: <stack trace> => __schedule => schedule => schedule_preempt_disabled => cpu_startup_entry => rest_init => start_kernel => x86_64_start_reservations => x86_64_start_kernel # echo stacktrace > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger # cat trace <idle>-0 [002] d..3 1370.759745: <stack trace> => __schedule => schedule => schedule_preempt_disabled => cpu_startup_entry => start_secondary And kprobes are not touched. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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