RE: [PATCH 1/1] arm: backtrace-clang: fix wrong sp usage for unwinding

Ping! Any comments?

> show_stack() can be called for any task, however c_backtrace always unwinds
> frames based on the "sp" register. This results in printing the backtrace of
> the current task instead of the target task.
> 
> Try with normal TC:
> ==================
>        for_each_process(p) {
>                sched_show_task(p);
>        }
> 
> [7.433271] task:kthreadd        state:S stack:0     pid:2     tgid:2     ppid:0      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00000000
> [7.433633] Call trace:
> [7.433640] [<80113418>] (dump_backtrace) from [<80113510>] (show_stack+0x14/0x18)
> ..
> [7.433676] [<8016749c>] (sched_show_task) from [<803cb324>] (meminfo_proc_show+0x6c/0x930)
> [7.434019]  r5:8158e300 r4:8b4882d0
> [7.434024] [<803cb324>] (meminfo_proc_show) from [<80365788>] (seq_read_iter+0x148/0x4bc)
> [7.434045] [<80365788>] (seq_read_iter) from [<803c044c>] (proc_reg_read_iter+0xb8/0xc4)
> [7.434060] [<803c044c>] (proc_reg_read_iter) from [<80377104>] (copy_splice_read+0x228/0x308)
> 
> It should unwind frame based on passed "fp".
> (CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER=y)
> 
> With fix:
> =========
> [13.933732] task:kthreadd        state:S stack:0     pid:2     tgid:2     ppid:0      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00000000
> [13.934165] Call trace:
> [13.934604] [<80afa1a8>] (schedule) from [<8015426c>] (kthreadd+0x124/0x208)
> [13.934654]  r10:8100bbf0 r4:8116f440
> [13.934664] [<8015426c>] (kthreadd) from [<8010010c>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28)
> [13.934691] Exception stack(0xf081df9c to 0xf081dfe4)
> 
> Additionally, the extra manipulation of "sp" register appears unnecessary in the "current"
> task also since the "fp" register is already provided.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Onkarnath 
> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh 
> ---
>  arch/arm/lib/backtrace-clang.S | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/backtrace-clang.S b/arch/arm/lib/backtrace-clang.S
> index 290c52a60fc6..993410a6afd1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/lib/backtrace-clang.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/backtrace-clang.S
> @@ -105,10 +105,6 @@ ENDPROC(c_backtrace)
>  		moveq	mask, #0xfc000003
>  		movne	mask, #0		@ mask for 32-bit
>  
> -/*
> - * Switches the current frame to be the frame for dump_stack.
> - */
> -		add	frame, sp, #24		@ switch to false frame
>  for_each_frame:	tst	frame, mask		@ Check for address exceptions
>  		bne	no_frame
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1