Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] arm64: Implement stack trace termination record

[Madhavan T. Venkataraman]

On 3/19/21 7:30 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:26:13PM -0500, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote:
>> On 3/18/21 10:09 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> If we are going to add the extra record there would probably be less
>>> potential for confusion if we pointed it at some sensibly named dummy
>>> function so anything or anyone that does see it on the stack doesn't get
>>> confused by a NULL.
> 
>> I agree. I will think about this some more. If no other solution presents
>> itself, I will add the dummy function.
> 
> After discussing this with Mark Rutland offlist he convinced me that so
> long as we ensure the kernel doesn't print the NULL record we're
> probably OK here, the effort setting the function pointer up correctly
> in all circumstances (especially when we're not in the normal memory
> map) is probably not worth it for the limited impact it's likely to have
> to see the NULL pointer (probably mainly a person working with some
> external debugger).  It should be noted in the changelog though, and/or
> merged in with the relevant change to the unwinder.
> 

OK. I will add a comment as well as note it in the changelog.

Thanks to both of you.

Madhavan