linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove outdated comment in stack handling

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Message-ID: <20200727165232.7495ed57@oasis.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:52:32 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, <kernel@...s.com>,
        <tglx@...utronix.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove outdated comment in stack handling

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:28:40 +0200
Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com> wrote:

> This comment describes the behaviour before commit 2a820bf74918
> ("tracing: Use percpu stack trace buffer more intelligently").  Since
> that commit, interrupts and NMIs do use the per-cpu stacks so the
> comment is no longer correct.  Remove it.
> 

Thanks, I'll queue this up for the next merge window.

-- Steve

> (Note that the FTRACE_STACK_SIZE mentioned in the comment has never
> existed, it probably should have said FTRACE_STACK_ENTRIES.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>
> ---