From 0f77a8d378254f27df4a114a5da67223af1fe93f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:42:29 +0900 Subject: vsprintf: Introduce %pB format specifier The %pB format specifier is for stack backtrace. Its handler sprint_backtrace() does symbol lookup using (address-1) to ensure the address will not point outside of the function. If there is a tail-call to the function marked "noreturn", gcc optimized out the code after the call then causes saved return address points outside of the function (i.e. the start of the next function), so pollutes call trace somewhat. This patch adds the %pB printk mechanism that allows architecture call-trace printout functions to improve backtrace printouts. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1300934550-21394-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/kallsyms.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/kallsyms.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h index d8e9b3d1c23c..0df513b7a9f8 100644 --- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h +++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr, /* Look up a kernel symbol and return it in a text buffer. */ extern int sprint_symbol(char *buffer, unsigned long address); +extern int sprint_backtrace(char *buffer, unsigned long address); /* Look up a kernel symbol and print it to the kernel messages. */ extern void __print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long address); @@ -79,6 +80,12 @@ static inline int sprint_symbol(char *buffer, unsigned long addr) return 0; } +static inline int sprint_backtrace(char *buffer, unsigned long addr) +{ + *buffer = '\0'; + return 0; +} + static inline int lookup_symbol_name(unsigned long addr, char *symname) { return -ERANGE; -- cgit