[Crash-utility] [PATCH] s390: Fix backtrace code

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Michael Holzheu" <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:50 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > ----- "Michael Holzheu" <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Dave,
> > > 
> > > This patch fixes several bugs in the s390 stack backtrace code
> > > * Add panic stack as second interrupt stack
> > > * Fix printing of access registers (4 bytes instead of 8 bytes)
> > > * Use u64 for s390x register 14
> > > * Fix interrupt stack handling for s390x (use 160 byte overhead
> > > instead of 96)
> > 
> > The patch looks OK upon first glance -- can you verify that it's
> > absolutely backwards-compatible to earlier kernel versions?
> 
> I tested vanilla 2.6.32, RHEL5, SLES10 and SLES11.
> 
> But I found a bug with RHEL4:

OK good -- I'm glad I asked.  I note that RHEL3 doesn't even have
a "panic_stack" member.  That being the case, this won't work as
planned:

        stack_addr = ULONG(lc + MEMBER_OFFSET("_lowcore", stack_name));
        if (stack_addr == 0)
                return;

because MEMBER_OFFSET() will return a -1, which will get used as
an offset to add to "lc", and will quietly read the wrong data.

Dave


 
> Older Linux kernels for s390 can be built so that the panic stack is
> not set (CONFIG_CHECK_STACK kernel built option):
> 
>  *(lowcore_ptr[i]) = S390_lowcore;
>  lowcore_ptr[i]->async_stack = stack + (ASYNC_SIZE);
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_CHECK_STACK
>      stack = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,0);
>      if (stack == 0ULL)
>             panic("smp_boot_cpus failed to allocate memory\n");
>      lowcore_ptr[i]->panic_stack = stack + (PAGE_SIZE);
> #endif
> 
> RHEL4 has not defined CONFIG_CHECK_STACK. Therefore the following
> patch adds a check, so that the panic stack is only used, when
> it is there.
> ---
>  s390.c  |    2 ++
>  s390x.c |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/s390.c
> +++ b/s390.c
> @@ -581,6 +581,8 @@ static void s390_get_int_stack(char *sta
>  	if (!MEMBER_EXISTS("_lowcore", stack_name))
>  		return;
>  	stack_addr = ULONG(lc + MEMBER_OFFSET("_lowcore", stack_name));
> +	if (stack_addr == 0)
> +		return;
>  	readmem(stack_addr - INT_STACK_SIZE, KVADDR, int_stack,
>  		INT_STACK_SIZE, stack_name, FAULT_ON_ERROR);
>  	*start = stack_addr - INT_STACK_SIZE;
> --- a/s390x.c
> +++ b/s390x.c
> @@ -813,6 +813,8 @@ static void s390x_get_int_stack(char *st
>  	if (!MEMBER_EXISTS("_lowcore", stack_name))
>  		return;
>  	stack_addr = ULONG(lc + MEMBER_OFFSET("_lowcore", stack_name));
> +	if (stack_addr == 0)
> +		return;
>  	readmem(stack_addr - INT_STACK_SIZE, KVADDR, int_stack,
>  		INT_STACK_SIZE, stack_name, FAULT_ON_ERROR);
>  	*start = stack_addr - INT_STACK_SIZE;