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[RFC,08/41] parisc/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

Message ID 20190410103644.308534788@linutronix.de (mailing list archive)
State Awaiting Upstream
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Commit Message

Thomas Gleixner April 10, 2019, 10:28 a.m. UTC 
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>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/parisc/kernel/stacktrace.c |    5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
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--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -29,22 +29,17 @@  static void dump_trace(struct task_struc
 	}
 }
 
-
 /*
  * 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);