[PATCH 3/3] arm64: stacktrace: Convert to ARCH_STACKWALK
Miroslav Benes
mbenes at suse.cz
Fri Jul 17 05:06:31 EDT 2020
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 01:56:13PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > -void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
> > > -{
> > > - __save_stack_trace(current, trace, 0);
> > > + walk_stackframe(task, &frame, consume_entry, cookie);
> > > }
>
> > just an idea for further improvement (and it might be a matter of taste).
>
> Yeah, there's some more stuff that can be done - the reason I'm looking
> at this code is to do reliable stack trace which is going to require at
> least some changes to the actual unwinder, this just seemed like a
> useful block moving things forwards in itself and I particularly wanted
> feedback on patch 1.
Understood. Reliable stack traces would be an important step for live
patching on arm64, so I am looking forward to seeing that.
Thanks
Miroslav
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