Commit 8e05e96a authored Feb 28, 2016 by Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Ingo Molnar Feb 29, 2016

sched: Mark __schedule() stack frame as non-standard

objtool reports the following warnings for __schedule():

  kernel/sched/core.o: warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
  kernel/sched/core.o: warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
  kernel/sched/core.o: warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x40a: call without frame pointer save/setup
  kernel/sched/core.o: warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x7fd: frame pointer state mismatch
  kernel/sched/core.o: warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x421: frame pointer state mismatch

Basically it's confused by two unusual attributes of the switch_to()
macro:

1. It saves prev's frame pointer to the old stack and restores next's
   frame pointer from the new stack.

2. For new tasks it jumps directly to ret_from_fork.

Eventually it would probably be a good idea to clean up the
ret_from_fork hack so that new tasks are created with a valid initial
stack, as suggested by Andy:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALCETrWsqCw4L1qKO9j9L5F+4ED4viuLQTFc=n1pKBZfFPQUFg@mail.gmail.com



Then __schedule() could return normally into the new code and objtool
hopefully wouldn't have a problem anymore.

In the meantime, mark its stack frame as non-standard so we can have a
baseline with no objtool warnings.  The marker also serves as a reminder
that this code could be improved a bit.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/91190e324ebd7fcd01748d508d0dfd4693e84d91.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent 39853cc0

kernel/sched/core.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
		#include <linux/binfmts.h>
		#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
		#include <linux/compiler.h>
		#include <linux/frame.h>

		#include <asm/switch_to.h>
		#include <asm/tlb.h>
		@@ -3288,6 +3289,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)

		balance_callback(rq);
		}
		STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(__schedule); /* switch_to() */

		static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk)
		{

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