Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/4] arm64: Implement infrastructure for stack trace reliability checks
From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Apr 01 2021 - 14:52:21 EST
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 02:09:52PM -0500, madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Implement a check_reliability() function that will contain checks for the
> presence of various features and conditions that can render the stack trace
> unreliable.
This looks good to me with one minor stylistic thing:
> +/*
> + * Special functions where the stack trace is unreliable.
> + */
> +static struct function_range special_functions[] = {
> + { 0, 0 }
> +};
Might be good to put a comment here saying that this is terminating the
list rather than detecting a NULL function pointer:
{ /* sentinel */ }
is a common idiom for that.
Given that it's a fixed array we could also...
> + for (func = special_functions; func->start; func++) {
> + if (pc >= func->start && pc < func->end)
...do these as
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(special_functions); i++)
so you don't need something like that, though that gets awkward when you
have to write out special_functions[i].field a lot.
So many different potential colours for the bikeshed!
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