Re: [PATCH] x86, dumpstack: Fix unused variable warning.

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Wed Nov 24 2010 - 08:02:08 EST


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:26:01PM +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> >
> >
> > So, now the bp variable does not exist at all if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is
> > not defined.
>
> Yes - right. And its not used outside CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.
>
> > That's going to make this line :
> >
> >          show_trace(NULL, NULL, &stack, bp);
> >
> Not clear what are you trying to say. Would you please, clear it up a bit?


I think Jesper is confused because your patch applies on -tip (tip/master or
tip/perf/core) where we have zapped the bp argument from show_trace() lately.

But in the mainline, show_trace() still has the bp argument.
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