[RFC patch 03/41] arm/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

[Thomas Gleixner]

Terminating the last trace entry with ULONG_MAX is a completely pointless
exercise and none of the consumers can rely on it because it's
inconsistently implemented across architectures. In fact quite some of the
callers remove the entry and adjust stack_trace.nr_entries afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace(
 		 * running on another CPU?  For now, ignore it as we
 		 * can't guarantee we won't explode.
 		 */
-		if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-			trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 		return;
 #else
 		frame.fp = thread_saved_fp(tsk);
@@ -134,8 +132,6 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace(
 	}
 
 	walk_stackframe(&frame, save_trace, &data);
-	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 
 void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)
@@ -153,8 +149,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_reg
 	frame.pc = regs->ARM_pc;
 
 	walk_stackframe(&frame, save_trace, &data);
-	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 
 void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)