parisc/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:28:02 +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: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410103644.308534788@linutronix.de
arch/parisc/kernel/stacktrace.c

index ec5835e..6f0b9c8 100644 (file)
@@ -29,22 +29,17 @@ static void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct stack_trace *trace)
        }
 }
 
-
 /*
  * Save stack-backtrace addresses into a stack_trace buffer.
  */
 void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
 {
        dump_trace(current, trace);
-       if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-               trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace);
 
 void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)
 {
        dump_trace(tsk, trace);
-       if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-               trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk);