ppc64le reliable stack unwinder and scheduled tasks

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe at redhat.com
Tue Jan 15 04:09:32 AEDT 2019


On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:46:59AM -0500, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> @@ -158,11 +158,21 @@ save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  			return 1; /* invalid backlink, too far up. */
>  		}
>  
> +		/* We can only trust the bottom frame's backlink, the rest
> +		 * of the frame may be uninitialized, continue to the next. */
> +		if (firstframe--)
> +			goto next;

Won't this decrement firstframe on every iteration, so when firstframe
is 0, it will decrement it to -1, causing it to 'goto next' on all
future iterations?

-- 
Josh


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