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

[Jesper Juhl]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> 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.


Ahh yes, my mistake. I checked the code in mainline.
Sorry about the confusion.


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