Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: arm64: Compile stacktrace.nvhe.o

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed May 04 2022 - 10:17:12 EST


On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 12:12:02PM -0700, Kalesh Singh wrote:

> Recompile stack unwinding code for use with the nVHE hypervisor. This is
> a preparatory patch that will allow reusing most of the kernel unwinding
> logic in the nVHE hypervisor.

> enum stack_type {
> - STACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN,
> +#ifndef __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__
> STACK_TYPE_TASK,
> STACK_TYPE_IRQ,
> STACK_TYPE_OVERFLOW,
> STACK_TYPE_SDEI_NORMAL,
> STACK_TYPE_SDEI_CRITICAL,
> +#endif /* !__KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__ */
> + STACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN,
> __NR_STACK_TYPES
> };

I don't immediately see a problem with it but I'm curious as to why
STACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN got moved to the end of the list here? It does mean
that zeroed memory will default to STACK_TYPE_TASK but we're not
actually relying on that. Otherwise

Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

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