Implement support for printing stack backtraces on ARM64, make
framepointer support configurable by the build system with
CONFIG_FRAMEPOINTER and teach U-Boot to walk the framepointers and
unwind the stack when an exception occurs. Also show all 64 bits of the
exception syndrom register (ESR).
Additionally, a new global unwind_stack() function is added, this can
be called from anywhere to print a backtrace which can be useful when
debugging certain problems. It is now used during panic() when available
to provide more useful information for debugging.
A new printf format specifier is added: %pS will print a symbol name
from an address, this is particularly useful for function pointers
=== Handling relocation ===
Since U-Boot relocates itself at runtime, and can be built to be
position independent in the first place (effectively "relocating" itself
when it first starts too), we can't really rely on gd->reloc_off.
The approach taken here is to subtract CONFIG_TEXT_BASE from the address
of each symbol in the lookup table (while it's being generated), then
when decoding we just subtract the address of the _start label since it
is always correct pre and post relocation. This allows us to avoid all
the awkward maths since the symbols are always relative to 0x0 in the
lookup table.
Example output (CONFIG_TEXT_BASE is 0 in this case):
"Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x0000000096000021, far 0x16dd3e2d3
elr: 0000000000028f64 lr : 00000000000344f0 (reloc)
elr: 000000017dda1f64 lr : 000000017ddad4f0
x0 : 0000000000001011 x1 : 000000016dd3e2d3
x2 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 000000016dde7eb8
x4 : 000000017dda1f30 x5 : 000000016dde7ef0
x6 : 0000000000000064 x7 : 000000016dde9000
x8 : 00000000ffffffd8 x9 : 000000016dd3e238
x10: 000000000000000d x11: 0000000000000006
x12: 0000000000000001 x13: 000000016dd3d920
x14: 00000000fffffffd x15: 0000000000000002
x16: 000000017dda1f30 x17: 0000000000000000
x18: 000000016dd59c70 x19: 000000017de87788
x20: 0000000000000000 x21: 0000000000000000
x22: 000000016dde7eb0 x23: 0000000000000002
x24: 000000017de9addc x25: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
x28: 000000016dde7f10 x29: 000000016dd3e2d0
Code: a8c17bfd d65f03c0 910003e1 b2400421 (c8dffc20)
Relocated base addr: 0x17dd79000
Backtrace:
elr: <0x00000000028f64 R-> 0x0000017dda1f64> do_unaligned+0x34
lr: <0x000000000344f0 R-> 0x0000017ddad4f0> cmd_process+0x130
<0x0000000002b99c R-> 0x0000017dda499c> run_list_real+0x718
<0x0000000002bb28 R-> 0x0000017dda4b28> parse_stream_outer+0x14c
<0x0000000002c06c R-> 0x0000017dda506c> parse_file_outer+0x34
<0x00000000033818 R-> 0x0000017ddac818> cli_loop+0x18
<0x00000000029084 R-> 0x0000017dda2084> main_loop+0x54
<0x0000000002cdec R-> 0x0000017dda5dec> board_init_r+0x3c8
<0x00000000003014 R-> 0x0000017dd7c014> relocation_return+0x4
Resetting CPU ...
---
Changes in v3:
- Reorder patches to try and avoid breaking bisects
- Include pre/post relocation addresses for symbols
- Print elr and lr in the exception case to capture the full callstack
- Change print_sym to print the LR value rather than the symbol address
- Make symaddr and offset optional in symbol_lookup()
- Implement %pS format specifier and use it in backtrace print
- Export unwind_stack() when CONFIG_FRAMEPOINTER enabled, call it from
panic()
- Link to v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725-b4-arm64-backtrace-symbols-v2-0-230a96650...@linaro.org
Changes in v2:
- Include calling function in backtrace (current LR)
- Implement support for runtime symbol lookup
- Use symbol lookup to print more informative backtraces when available
- Adjust backtrace format and print U-Boot base address
- Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250703051951.43372-1-heinrich.schucha...@canonical.com
To: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schucha...@canonical.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+rene...@mailbox.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben.do...@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Rick Chen <r...@andestech.com>
Cc: Leo <ycli...@andestech.com>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org>
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
---
Casey Connolly (6):
drop unused kallsyms support
add support for symbol lookups
lib: vsprintf: implement %pS format specifier
arm64: implement printing backtraces with symbols
lib: expose unwind_stack() and call it from panic()
qcom_defconfig: enable framepointer for backtraces
Heinrich Schuchardt (4):
cmd/exception: missing include string.h
arm64: initialize the frame pointer register
Kconfig: make CONFIG_FRAMEPOINTER available on arm64
arm64: simplify interrupt code
Kconfig | 26 ++
Makefile | 24 +-
arch/arm/Makefile | 9 +-
arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S | 1 +
arch/arm/lib/interrupts_64.c | 146 +++++++---
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 21 --
common/Makefile | 1 -
common/kallsyms.c | 42 ---
common/system_map.c | 8 -
configs/qcom_defconfig | 1 +
include/exception.h | 1 +
include/symbols.h | 31 +++
lib/Kconfig | 8 +
lib/panic.c | 7 +
lib/symbols.c | 143 ++++++++++
lib/vsprintf.c | 25 ++
tools/Makefile | 3 +
tools/symbols.c | 646 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
18 files changed, 1021 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 182cb30084516c3085d2ca5dde3f105f7625d774
change-id: 20250725-b4-arm64-backtrace-symbols-af9579214288
Casey Connolly <casey.conno...@linaro.org>
