Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null)

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/21/17 15:12, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>>
>> commit 24d86f59093b0bcb3756cdf47f2db10ff4e90dbb
>> Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Thu Oct 27 08:10:58 2016 -0500
>>
>>     x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
>>
>>     Add a sanity check to ensure the stack only grows down, and print
>>     a
>>         warning if the check fails.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> I don't think I've seen this one.  Any chance this came after resuming
> from a hibernation or suspend?
> 
> 
>> [    1.047295] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M
>> [    1.047356] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
>> [    1.048029] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
>> [    1.048348] WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at f50cdf98 in
>> swapper/2:0 has bad value   (null)
>> [    1.048349] unwind stack type:0 next_sp:  (null) mask:a graph_idx:0
>> [    1.048352] f50cdebc: 00000000f50cdec4 (0xf50cdec4)
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

FWIW, it would be really darned nice to not have all those zeroes in a
32-bit stack frame dump.

Is not a zero stack frame pointer value an end of stack token?

	-hpa