From: Dave Hansen The "SYSENTER" stack is used for a lot more than SYSENTER now. Give it a better string to display in stack dumps. We should probably cleanse the 64-bit code of the remaining "SYSENTER" nomenclature too at some point. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen --- b/arch//x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch//x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c~SYSENTER-rename arch//x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c --- a/arch//x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c~SYSENTER-rename 2017-12-01 12:43:16.768707737 -0800 +++ b/arch//x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c 2017-12-01 13:19:21.741702337 -0800 @@ -37,8 +37,14 @@ const char *stack_type_name(enum stack_t if (type == STACK_TYPE_IRQ) return "IRQ"; - if (type == STACK_TYPE_SYSENTER) - return "SYSENTER"; + if (type == STACK_TYPE_SYSENTER) { + /* + * On 64-bit, we have a generic entry stack that we + * use for all the kernel try points, including + * SYSENTER. + */ + return "ENTRY_TRAMPOLINE"; + } if (type >= STACK_TYPE_EXCEPTION && type <= STACK_TYPE_EXCEPTION_LAST) return exception_stack_names[type - STACK_TYPE_EXCEPTION]; _