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Will Deacon
d33aadbf8e ARM: 6468/1: backtrace: fix calculation of thread stack base
When unwinding stack frames we must take care not to unwind
areas of memory that lie outside of the known extent of the stack.

This patch fixes an incorrect calculation of the stack base where
THREAD_SIZE is added to the stack pointer after it has already
been aligned to this value. Since the ALIGN macro performs this
addition internally, we end up overshooting the base by 8k.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-11-07 16:12:37 +00:00
Phil Carmody
5333a3de3c ARM: 6341/1: unwind - optimise linked-list searches for modules
With several sections per module, and dozens of modules, the
searches down the linked list of sections would dominate the
lookup time, dwarfing any savings from the binary search
within the section.

A simple move-to-front optimisation exploits the commonality
of the code paths taken, and in simple real-world tests reduces
the number of steps in the search to barely more than 1.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-09-02 15:31:36 +01:00
Alexander Shishkin
830703c766 ARM: 6140/1: silence a bogus sparse warning in unwind.c
The check for compiler which is supposed to miscompile unwind tables
clearly has nothing to do with sparse (which does not define necessary
macros anyway), so simply silence it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-24 20:42:03 +01:00
Laurent Pinchart
51d47999b9 ARM: 5977/1: arm: Enable backtrace printing on oops when PC is corrupted
If PC points outside kernel text, start printing the backtrace at LR
instead.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-07 10:22:00 +00:00
Claudio Scordino
6603a4fd51 ARM: 5776/1: Check compiler version and EABI support when adding ARM unwind support.
ARM unwind is known to compile only with EABI and not-buggy compilers.
The problem is not the unwinding information but the -fno-frame-pointer
option added as a result of !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  Now we check the
compiler and raise a #warning in case of wrong compiler.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-11-02 16:59:45 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
b86040a59f Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code
This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and
exception handling code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-24 12:32:54 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
c894ed6956 [ARM] 5558/1: Add extra checks to ARM unwinder to avoid tracing corrupt stacks
There are situations where the unwinder goes beyond stack boundaries and
unwinds random data. This patch moves the stack boundaries check after
the unwind_exec_insn() call and adds an extra check for possible
infinite loops (like "mov pc, lr" with pc == lr).

The patch also fixes a bug in the unwind instructions interpreter. The
0xb0 instruction can only set PC to LR if this wasn't already set by
a previous instruction (this is used on exceptions taken while in kernel
mode where svc_entry is annotated with ".save {r0 - pc}").

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-19 16:44:22 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
bff595c15c [ARM] 5383/2: unwind: Add core support for ARM stack unwinding
This patch adds the main functionality for parsing the stack unwinding
information generated by the ARM EABI toolchains. The unwinding
information consists of an index with a pair of words per function and a
table with unwinding instructions. For more information, see "Exception
Handling ABI for the ARM Architecture" at:

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.subset.swdev.abi/index.html

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-02-19 11:26:24 +00:00