arm64/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:28:01 +0000 (12:28 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:58:29 +0000 (19:58 +0200)
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@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410103644.220247845@linutronix.de
arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c

index d908b5e..b00ec7d 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 }