[tip:core/stacktrace] arm64/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

From: tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Apr 14 2019 - 16:39:01 EST


Commit-ID: 7b2c7b6233497bfab8826ece574bc1c26e97478d
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7b2c7b6233497bfab8826ece574bc1c26e97478d
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:28:01 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:58:29 +0200

arm64/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

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>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410103644.220247845@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

---
arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index d908b5e9e949..b00ec7d483d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)
#endif

walk_stackframe(current, &frame, save_trace, &data);
- if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
- trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_regs);

@@ -172,8 +170,6 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
#endif

walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data);
- if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
- trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;

put_task_stack(tsk);
}