linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/19] x86/dumpstack: fix function graph tracing stack dump reliability issues

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:45:30 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/19] x86/dumpstack: fix function graph tracing stack
 dump reliability issues

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:31:25 -0500
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:


> Yeah, we do need to add a parameter to ftrace_push_return_trace().  But
> callers which don't implement it could just pass zero like they do with
> 'fp'.
> 

Right, if zero is passed in, then just ignore it.

Bed time!

-- Steve