x86, debug: remove the confusing entry in call trace

Impact: improve backtrace quality

avoid the confusion in call trace because of the lack of padding at the
tail of function.

When do_exit gets called, the return address behind call instruction is
pushed into stack. If something get wrong in do_exit, for x86_64, the
entry "kernel_execve +0x00/0xXX" rather than "child_rip +0xYY/0xZZ" is
in the call trace.

That looks confusing, so add a u2d to make the return address still part
of the original call site. (This also catches any instances of us returning
from that function somehow.)

Signed-off-by: jia zhang <jia.zhang2008@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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jia zhang 2008-11-23 22:47:10 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f377fa123d
commit 5f5db59132
2 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1051,6 +1051,7 @@ ENTRY(kernel_thread_helper)
push %eax
CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
call do_exit
ud2 # padding for call trace
CFI_ENDPROC
ENDPROC(kernel_thread_helper)

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@ -1172,6 +1172,7 @@ child_rip:
# exit
mov %eax, %edi
call do_exit
ud2 # padding for call trace
CFI_ENDPROC
ENDPROC(child_rip)