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From: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>, <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add i386 frame pointer unwinder.
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f6a4585-7b24-0d6a-7d4e-33473671169d@qt.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493124579-21017-4-git-send-email-mark@klomp.org>

On 04/25/2017 02:49 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Add a simple i386_unwind.c frame pointer unwinder as fallback if DWARF/CFI
> unwinding fails.

Looks good to me. The logic could be relaxed a bit so that failure to e.g. write the new value for sp would not be fatal. Then we might be able to unwind even more frames. But refusing to unwind obviously broken frames is acceptable, too.

Ulf

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-15 23:34 frame unwinding patches Mark Wielaard
2017-02-15 23:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add frame pointer unwinding for aarch64 Mark Wielaard
2017-02-15 23:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add frame pointer unwinding as fallback on arm Mark Wielaard
2017-02-15 23:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add frame pointer unwinding as fallback on x86_64 Mark Wielaard
2017-02-16  9:13 ` frame unwinding patches Ulf Hermann
2017-04-03  9:00 ` Milian Wolff
2017-04-03  9:03   ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-03 21:14     ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-07 10:27       ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-11 10:16         ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-19 19:48           ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-20  9:26             ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-25 12:50               ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 12:54                 ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "Optionally allow unknown symbols in the backtrace tests" Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 12:50                   ` [PATCH 2/5] tests: Add core backtracegen chec and regenerate ppc32 backtrace test files Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 13:04                     ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-25 12:55                   ` [PATCH 3/5] Add frame pointer unwinding as fallback on x86_64 Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 13:05                     ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-25 12:56                   ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "Optionally allow unknown symbols in the backtrace tests" Ulf Hermann
2017-04-25 12:56                   ` [PATCH 4/5] Add i386 frame pointer unwinder Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 13:38                     ` Ulf Hermann [this message]
2017-04-25 13:11                   ` [PATCH 5/5] Add frame pointer unwinding for aarch64 Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 21:55                     ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-25 22:13                     ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-25 22:23                       ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-26 15:24                         ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-27 14:02                           ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-27 14:29                             ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-27 14:35                               ` Ulf Hermann
2017-04-27 15:09                                 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-27 15:42                                   ` Ulf Hermann
2017-05-03  8:46                                 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-04-26 15:20                 ` frame unwinding patches Ulf Hermann
2017-04-03 21:23   ` Jan Kratochvil
2017-04-04  7:40     ` Milian Wolff
2017-04-04  7:55       ` Jan Kratochvil
2017-04-04  8:25         ` Ulf Hermann

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