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author | Jordan Rome <[email protected]> | 2023-11-08 03:23:34 -0800 |
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committer | Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]> | 2023-11-10 11:06:10 -0800 |
commit | b8e3a87a627b575896e448021e5c2f8a3bc19931 (patch) | |
tree | 1c1e6a05755fd36882c88249a9522848f5a3a861 /tools/perf/scripts/python/flamegraph.py | |
parent | 92411764e3106f38ac815d2fb1ae011e7bbe2abc (diff) |
bpf: Add crosstask check to __bpf_get_stack
Currently get_perf_callchain only supports user stack walking for
the current task. Passing the correct *crosstask* param will return
0 frames if the task passed to __bpf_get_stack isn't the current
one instead of a single incorrect frame/address. This change
passes the correct *crosstask* param but also does a preemptive
check in __bpf_get_stack if the task is current and returns
-EOPNOTSUPP if it is not.
This issue was found using bpf_get_task_stack inside a BPF
iterator ("iter/task"), which iterates over all tasks.
bpf_get_task_stack works fine for fetching kernel stacks
but because get_perf_callchain relies on the caller to know
if the requested *task* is the current one (via *crosstask*)
it was failing in a confusing way.
It might be possible to get user stacks for all tasks utilizing
something like access_process_vm but that requires the bpf
program calling bpf_get_task_stack to be sleepable and would
therefore be a breaking change.
Fixes: fa28dcb82a38 ("bpf: Introduce helper bpf_get_task_stack()")
Signed-off-by: Jordan Rome <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]
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