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authorjia zhang <jia.zhang2008@gmail.com>2008-11-23 15:47:10 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-23 20:03:36 +0100
commit5f5db591326779a80cfe490c5d6b6ce9fac08b31 (patch)
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parentx86: clean up stack overflow debug check (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 28b597ef9ca1..f6402c4ba10d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -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)