linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] kdb: Fix "btc <cpu>" crash if the CPU didn't round up

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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 22:09:41 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] kdb: Fix "btc <cpu>" crash if the CPU didn't
 round up

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:02:19PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> I noticed that when I did "btc <cpu>" and the CPU I passed in hadn't
> rounded up that I'd crash.  I was going to copy the same fix from
> commit 162bc7f5afd7 ("kdb: Don't back trace on a cpu that didn't round
> up") into the "not all the CPUs" case, but decided it'd be better to
> clean things up a little bit.
> 
> This consolidates the two code paths.  It is _slightly_ wasteful in in

nit: in in

Will