Re: [PATCH] arm64: stacktrace: don't trace arch_stack_walk()

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:41:06 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> We recently converted arm64 to use arch_stack_walk() in commit:
> 
>   5fc57df2f6fd ("arm64: stacktrace: Convert to ARCH_STACKWALK")
> 
> The core stacktrace code expects that (when tracing the current task)
> arch_stack_walk() starts a trace at its caller, and does not include
> itself in the trace. However, arm64's arch_stack_walk() includes itself,
> and so traces include one more entry than callers expect. The core
> stacktrace code which calls arch_stack_walk() tries to skip a number of
> entries to prevent itself appearing in a trace, and the additional entry
> prevents skipping one of the core stacktrace functions, leaving this in
> the trace unexpectedly.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: stacktrace: don't trace arch_stack_walk()
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/c607ab4f916d

Cheers,
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Will

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