[PATCH] arm64: Change 'Call trace' to 'Call Trace' for tool scanners

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Feb 5 10:30:29 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 01:18:13PM -0500, Don Dutile wrote:
> On 02/05/2015 12:37 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:30:27PM -0500, Donald Dutile wrote:
> >>Receiving reports from service folks that arm64 uses
> >>'Call trace' when dumping stack, instead of the more familiar
> >>'Call Trace'; the former is not being seen by tools that
> >>scan for the latter text.  Checking various arches,
> >>it appears the mainstream server arches (ia64, mips, ppc,
> >>s390, sparc, x86) use 'Call Trace'.
> >>This kernel tools script scans for the latter text string as well
> >>   tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/parse-console.sh
> >>so it doesn't appear to be arch or vendor specific.
> >
> >That script should also be changed to accept "Backtrace" which we've had
> >for eons on ARM.  I would not be happy to change that given that ARM has
> >used "Backtrace" there for a very long time now (not far off 20 years.)
> >
> So you're saying:
> (a) you want 'Backtrace' added to parse-console.sh

Correct

> (b) 'not happy to change that' .. where 'that' == ?

that = "Backtrace" in the ARM code.

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