[RFC patch 10/41] lockdep: Remove the ULONG_MAX stack trace hackery

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Apr 10 2019 - 07:09:58 EST


No architecture terminates the stack trace with ULONG_MAX anymore. Remove
the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 11 -----------
1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -444,17 +444,6 @@ static int save_trace(struct stack_trace

save_stack_trace(trace);

- /*
- * Some daft arches put -1 at the end to indicate its a full trace.
- *
- * <rant> this is buggy anyway, since it takes a whole extra entry so a
- * complete trace that maxes out the entries provided will be reported
- * as incomplete, friggin useless </rant>
- */
- if (trace->nr_entries != 0 &&
- trace->entries[trace->nr_entries-1] == ULONG_MAX)
- trace->nr_entries--;
-
trace->max_entries = trace->nr_entries;

nr_stack_trace_entries += trace->nr_entries;