[PATCH v2 0/8] arm64: stacktrace: cleanups and improvements

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Aug 8 05:28:32 PDT 2022


On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 12:59:08PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 01:45:14PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > This series is a set of improvements for the recently merged stacktrace
> > > rework queued in the kvmarm next branch, along the lines of my prior
> > > suggestions. I'm hoping that it would be possible to queue this for
> > > -rc1.
> > 
> > What justifies this for inclusion in -rc1? Although the series looks pretty
> > good to me, it seems to be cleanup and refactoring which could wait for
> > 5.21 (or whatever it ends up being called). What am I missing?
> 
> If you think this should wait, that's fine by me. I plan to build atop this
> with further rework and just wanted to get the trivial bits out of the way
> early.

Although this stuff is largely cosmetic, I wouldn't say it's trivial! So
yes, how about we stick this on a branch at -rc3 and you can build on top
of that?

It also means you can spin a v3 with the various minor open issues
addressed.

Will



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