[PATCH v4 06/18] arm64: stacktrace: Add description of stacktrace/common.h

Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh at google.com
Thu Jul 14 23:10:15 PDT 2022


Add brief description on how to use stacktrace/common.h to implement
a stack unwinder.

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h
index f86efe71479d..b362086f4c70 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 /*
  * Common arm64 stack unwinder code.
  *
+ * To implement a new arm64 stack unwinder:
+ *     1) Include this header
+ *
+ *     2) Provide implementations for the following functions:
+ *            - on_overflow_stack()
+ *            - on_accessible_stack()
+ *            - unwind_next()
+ *
  * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
  */
 #ifndef __ASM_STACKTRACE_COMMON_H
-- 
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