Thread (79 messages) 79 messages, 6 authors, 2025-06-24

Re: [PATCH v10 04/14] unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind_deferred_trace()

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2025-06-18 14:02:59
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 08:54:25PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
+/**
+ * unwind_deferred_trace - Produce a user stacktrace in faultable context
+ * @trace: The descriptor that will store the user stacktrace
+ *
+ * This must be called in a known faultable context (usually when entering
+ * or exiting user space). Depending on the available implementations
+ * the @trace will be loaded with the addresses of the user space stacktrace
+ * if it can be found.
I am confused -- why would we ever want to call this on exiting
user-space, or rather kernel entry?

I thought the whole point was to request a user trace while in-kernel,
and defer that to return-to-user.
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