linux-stable/scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh
Sasha Levin dbd1abb209 decode_stacktrace: make stack dump output useful again
Right now when people try to report issues in the kernel they send stack
dumps to eachother, which looks something like this:

  [    6.906437]  [<ffffffff811f0e90>] ? backtrace_test_irq_callback+0x20/0x20
  [    6.907121]  [<ffffffff84388ce8>] dump_stack+0x52/0x7f
  [    6.907640]  [<ffffffff811f0ec8>] backtrace_regression_test+0x38/0x110
  [    6.908281]  [<ffffffff813596a0>] ? proc_create_data+0xa0/0xd0
  [    6.908870]  [<ffffffff870a8040>] ? proc_modules_init+0x22/0x22
  [    6.909480]  [<ffffffff810020c2>] do_one_initcall+0xc2/0x1e0
  [...]

However, most of the text you get is pure garbage.

The only useful thing above is the function name.  Due to the amount of
different kernel code versions and various configurations being used,
the kernel address and the offset into the function are not really
helpful in determining where the problem actually occured.

Too often the result of someone looking at a stack dump is asking the
person who sent it for a translation for one or more 'addr2line'
translations.  Which slows down the entire process of debugging the
issue (and really annoying).

The decode_stacktrace script is an attempt to make the output more
useful and easy to work with by translating all kernel addresses in the
stack dump into line numbers.  Which means that the stack dump would
look like this:

  [  635.148361]  dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
  [  635.149127]  warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:418)
  [  635.150214]  warn_slowpath_null (kernel/panic.c:453)
  [  635.151031]  _oalloc_pages_slowpath+0x6a/0x7d0
  [  635.152171]  ? zone_watermark_ok (mm/page_alloc.c:1728)
  [  635.152988]  ? get_page_from_freelist (mm/page_alloc.c:1939)
  [  635.154766]  __alloc_pages_nodemask (mm/page_alloc.c:2766)

It's pretty obvious why this is better than the previous stack dump
before.

Usage is pretty simple:

        ./decode_stacktrace.sh [vmlinux] [base path]

Where vmlinux is the vmlinux to extract line numbers from and base path
is the path that points to the root of the build tree, for example:

        ./decode_stacktrace.sh vmlinux /home/sasha/linux/ < input.log > output.log

The stack trace should be piped through it (I, for example, just pipe
the output of the serial console of my KVM test box through it).

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-10 15:29:43 -07:00

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#!/bin/bash
# (c) 2014, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
#set -x
if [[ $# != 2 ]]; then
echo "Usage:"
echo " $0 [vmlinux] [base path]"
exit 1
fi
vmlinux=$1
basepath=$2
declare -A cache
parse_symbol() {
# The structure of symbol at this point is:
# [name]+[offset]/[total length]
#
# For example:
# do_basic_setup+0x9c/0xbf
# Strip the symbol name so that we could look it up
local name=${symbol%+*}
# Use 'nm vmlinux' to figure out the base address of said symbol.
# It's actually faster to call it every time than to load it
# all into bash.
if [[ "${cache[$name]+isset}" == "isset" ]]; then
local base_addr=${cache[$name]}
else
local base_addr=$(nm "$vmlinux" | grep -i ' t ' | awk "/ $name\$/ {print \$1}" | head -n1)
cache["$name"]="$base_addr"
fi
# Let's start doing the math to get the exact address into the
# symbol. First, strip out the symbol total length.
local expr=${symbol%/*}
# Now, replace the symbol name with the base address we found
# before.
expr=${expr/$name/0x$base_addr}
# Evaluate it to find the actual address
expr=$((expr))
local address=$(printf "%x\n" "$expr")
# Pass it to addr2line to get filename and line number
# Could get more than one result
if [[ "${cache[$address]+isset}" == "isset" ]]; then
local code=${cache[$address]}
else
local code=$(addr2line -i -e "$vmlinux" "$address")
cache[$address]=$code
fi
# addr2line doesn't return a proper error code if it fails, so
# we detect it using the value it prints so that we could preserve
# the offset/size into the function and bail out
if [[ $code == "??:0" ]]; then
return
fi
# Strip out the base of the path
code=${code//$basepath/""}
# In the case of inlines, move everything to same line
code=${code//$'\n'/' '}
# Replace old address with pretty line numbers
symbol="$name ($code)"
}
decode_code() {
local scripts=`dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`
echo "$1" | $scripts/decodecode
}
handle_line() {
local words
# Tokenize
read -a words <<<"$1"
# Remove hex numbers. Do it ourselves until it happens in the
# kernel
# We need to know the index of the last element before we
# remove elements because arrays are sparse
local last=$(( ${#words[@]} - 1 ))
for i in "${!words[@]}"; do
# Remove the address
if [[ ${words[$i]} =~ \[\<([^]]+)\>\] ]]; then
unset words[$i]
fi
# Format timestamps with tabs
if [[ ${words[$i]} == \[ && ${words[$i+1]} == *\] ]]; then
unset words[$i]
words[$i+1]=$(printf "[%13s\n" "${words[$i+1]}")
fi
done
# The symbol is the last element, process it
symbol=${words[$last]}
unset words[$last]
parse_symbol # modifies $symbol
# Add up the line number to the symbol
echo "${words[@]}" "$symbol"
}
while read line; do
# Let's see if we have an address in the line
if [[ $line =~ \[\<([^]]+)\>\] ]]; then
# Translate address to line numbers
handle_line "$line"
# Is it a code line?
elif [[ $line == *Code:* ]]; then
decode_code "$line"
else
# Nothing special in this line, show it as is
echo "$line"
fi
done