#!/usr/bin/env python3 # # copyleft 2026 zxkmm co author with AI # # This file is part of PortaPack. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to # the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, # Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # """Report per-function stack frame sizes for an ELF or object file. The M0 process stack is 4 kB total (__process_stack_size__ in LPC43xx_M0.ld), shared by the whole UI thread including external apps. A guru that says "Stack Overflow" is a hard fault where get_free_stack_space() < 16, i.e. the 4 kB really was consumed - it is not a heap problem. Watch out for anything holding a File: _FS_TINY is 0 and _MAX_SS is 512 in ffconf.h, so every FIL carries a 512 byte sector cache and a File local costs ~560 bytes of stack. copy_file() holds two of them plus a 512 byte block buffer, ~1.8 kB in one frame. Thumb-1 cannot encode `sub sp, #imm` above 508 bytes, so large frames appear as a negative constant loaded from the literal pool: ldr r4, [pc, #728] ; (2e0 <...>) add sp, r4 ; r4 = 0xfffffcfc = -772 Naive greps for `sub sp` miss exactly the frames that matter. This resolves the literal. Usage: stack_usage.py build/firmware/application/application.elf # top 40 stack_usage.py --min 512 # everything >= 512 stack_usage.py --grep copy_file # filter by name stack_usage.py --chain main run_external_app copy_file # sum a call chain """ import argparse import os import re import subprocess import sys REPO = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..")) M0_STACK_BYTES = 4096 REG_ORDER = ['r0', 'r1', 'r2', 'r3', 'r4', 'r5', 'r6', 'r7', 'r8', 'r9', 'sl', 'fp', 'ip', 'sp', 'lr', 'pc'] def find_toolchain(explicit): for prefix in (explicit, os.environ.get("ARM_TOOLCHAIN"), os.path.join(REPO, "armbin", "bin", "arm-none-eabi-"), "arm-none-eabi-"): if not prefix: continue try: subprocess.run([prefix + "objdump", "--version"], capture_output=True, check=True) return prefix except (OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError): continue sys.exit("error: no arm-none-eabi toolchain found (set $ARM_TOOLCHAIN)") def push_bytes(reglist): n = 0 for part in reglist.split(','): part = part.strip() if '-' in part: a, b = part.split('-') if a in REG_ORDER and b in REG_ORDER: n += REG_ORDER.index(b) - REG_ORDER.index(a) + 1 else: n += 2 else: n += 1 return n * 4 def frame_sizes(tc, path): """function name (mangled) -> stack bytes reserved in its prologue.""" out = subprocess.run([tc + "objdump", "-d", path], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout bodies, cur = {}, None for line in out.splitlines(): m = re.match(r'^[0-9a-f]+ <(.+)>:', line) if m: cur = m.group(1) bodies[cur] = [] elif cur is not None: bodies[cur].append(line) sizes = {} for func, body in bodies.items(): # Literal pool words, so `add sp, rN` can be resolved. literals = {} for line in body: m = re.match(r'\s*([0-9a-f]+):\s+([0-9a-f]{8})\s+\.word\s+0x([0-9a-f]+)', line) if m: literals[int(m.group(1), 16)] = int(m.group(3), 16) total, regval = 0, {} for line in body: m = re.search(r'ldr\s+(\w+), \[pc, #\d+\].*;\s*\(([0-9a-f]+)', line) if m: regval[m.group(1)] = literals.get(int(m.group(2), 16)) m = re.search(r'\bsub(?:\.w)?\s+sp, (?:sp, )?#(\d+)', line) if m: total += int(m.group(1)) # Thumb-1 large frame: add sp, rN where rN holds a negative literal. # Bound it: the same register may instead hold a data address, and # external app addresses (0xADxxxxxx) also look "negative" here. m = re.search(r'\badd\s+sp, (r\d+|sl|fp|ip)\b', line) if m: v = regval.get(m.group(1)) if v and v > 0x80000000: adjust = 0x100000000 - v if adjust <= 2 * M0_STACK_BYTES: total += adjust m = re.search(r'\bpush(?:\.w)?\s+\{(.+)\}', line) if m: total += push_bytes(m.group(1)) sizes[func] = total return sizes def demangle(tc, names): if not names: return [] out = subprocess.run([tc + "c++filt"], input="\n".join(names), capture_output=True, text=True).stdout return out.splitlines() def main(): p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) p.add_argument("path", help="ELF or .obj to analyse") p.add_argument("--min", type=int, default=0, help="only show frames >= this many bytes") p.add_argument("--top", type=int, default=40, help="max rows to print (0 = all)") p.add_argument("--grep", help="only functions whose demangled name matches this regex") p.add_argument("--chain", nargs="+", help="sum the frames of these functions (substring match) as a call chain") p.add_argument("--toolchain", help="arm-none-eabi- prefix") args = p.parse_args() if not os.path.exists(args.path): sys.exit("error: no such file: " + args.path) tc = find_toolchain(args.toolchain) sizes = frame_sizes(tc, args.path) names = list(sizes) pretty = dict(zip(names, demangle(tc, names))) if args.chain: print("\ncall chain, M0 process stack is %d bytes\n" % M0_STACK_BYTES) total = 0 for want in args.chain: hit = None for n in names: if want in pretty[n] or want in n: if hit is None or sizes[n] > sizes[hit]: hit = n if hit is None: print(" %6s %s (not found)" % ("?", want)) continue total += sizes[hit] print(" %6d %s" % (sizes[hit], pretty[hit][:96])) pct = 100.0 * total / M0_STACK_BYTES print(" " + "-" * 60) print(" %6d total (%.0f%% of the 4 kB stack, %d bytes free)" % (total, pct, M0_STACK_BYTES - total)) if total > M0_STACK_BYTES: print("\n OVERFLOWS - this chain cannot fit.") elif pct > 75: print("\n Tight. Anything the callees add on top may fault.") return rows = [(v, pretty[k]) for k, v in sizes.items() if v >= args.min] if args.grep: rx = re.compile(args.grep) rows = [r for r in rows if rx.search(r[1])] rows.sort(key=lambda r: -r[0]) if args.top: rows = rows[:args.top] print("\n%6s %s" % ("bytes", "function")) for v, n in rows: flag = " <-- over half the stack" if v > M0_STACK_BYTES // 2 else "" print("%6d %s%s" % (v, n[:100], flag)) if __name__ == "__main__": main()