[tip:core/stacktrace] s390/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

From: tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Apr 14 2019 - 16:40:09 EST


Commit-ID: 6a28b4c2d93b812512d8d2e5179e61a14f578560
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6a28b4c2d93b812512d8d2e5179e61a14f578560
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:28:03 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:58:29 +0200

s390/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

Terminating the last trace entry with ULONG_MAX is a completely pointless
exercise and none of the consumers can rely on it because it's
inconsistently implemented across architectures. In fact quite some of the
callers remove the entry and adjust stack_trace.nr_entries afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410103644.396788431@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

---
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 460dcfba7d4e..cc9ed9787068 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)

sp = current_stack_pointer();
dump_trace(save_address, trace, NULL, sp);
- if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
- trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace);

@@ -58,8 +56,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)
if (tsk == current)
sp = current_stack_pointer();
dump_trace(save_address_nosched, trace, tsk, sp);
- if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
- trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk);

@@ -69,7 +65,5 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)

sp = kernel_stack_pointer(regs);
dump_trace(save_address, trace, NULL, sp);
- if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
- trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_regs);