x86/stacktrace: Remove STACKTRACE_DUMP_ONCE
authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 18 May 2018 06:47:09 +0000 (08:47 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:34:55 +0000 (16:34 +0200)
The stack unwinding can sometimes fail yet. Especially with the
generated debug info. So do not yell at users -- live patching (the only
user of this interface) will inform the user about the failure
gracefully.

And given this was the only user of the macro, remove the macro proper
too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20180518064713.26440-2-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c

index 8948b7d..f9dacf6 100644 (file)
@@ -81,16 +81,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
 
-#define STACKTRACE_DUMP_ONCE(task) ({                          \
-       static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __dumped;         \
-                                                               \
-       if (!__dumped) {                                        \
-               __dumped = true;                                \
-               WARN_ON(1);                                     \
-               show_stack(task, NULL);                         \
-       }                                                       \
-})
-
 static int __always_inline
 __save_stack_trace_reliable(struct stack_trace *trace,
                            struct task_struct *task)
@@ -123,20 +113,16 @@ __save_stack_trace_reliable(struct stack_trace *trace,
                 * generated code which __kernel_text_address() doesn't know
                 * about.
                 */
-               if (!addr) {
-                       STACKTRACE_DUMP_ONCE(task);
+               if (!addr)
                        return -EINVAL;
-               }
 
                if (save_stack_address(trace, addr, false))
                        return -EINVAL;
        }
 
        /* Check for stack corruption */
-       if (unwind_error(&state)) {
-               STACKTRACE_DUMP_ONCE(task);
+       if (unwind_error(&state))
                return -EINVAL;
-       }
 
        if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
                trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;