linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] dump_stack: consolidate dump_stack() implementations and unify their behaviors

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Date:	Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:45:35 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] dump_stack: consolidate dump_stack() implementations
 and unify their behaviors

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each
> architecture.  show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the
> current task as does dump_stack().  On some archs, dump_stack() prints
> extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the
> backtrace while the two are identical on other archs.

[...]

> This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in
> lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from
> x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific
> dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin and s390.
> Blackfin's dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand
> and s390 prints its own debug information which includes fields which
> aren't accessible from arch-indepdent code.

The couple of extra fields aren't worth an s390 version of dump_stack()
that differs from all other architectures.
Please drop the s390 version as well. Thanks!

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