Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/4] arm64: Implement infrastructure for stack trace reliability checks
From: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-01 18:06:41
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From: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-01 18:06:41
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linux-arm-kernel, lkml
On 4/1/21 10:27 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 02:09:52PM -0500, madvenka@linux.microsoft.com wrote:quoted
From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <redacted> Implement a check_reliability() function that will contain checks for the presence of various features and conditions that can render the stack trace unreliable.This looks good to me with one minor stylistic thing:quoted
+/* + * Special functions where the stack trace is unreliable. + */ +static struct function_range special_functions[] = { + { 0, 0 } +};Might be good to put a comment here saying that this is terminating the list rather than detecting a NULL function pointer: { /* sentinel */ } is a common idiom for that. Given that it's a fixed array we could also...quoted
+ for (func = special_functions; func->start; func++) { + if (pc >= func->start && pc < func->end)...do these as for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(special_functions); i++) so you don't need something like that, though that gets awkward when you have to write out special_functions[i].field a lot. So many different potential colours for the bikeshed!
I will make the above changes. Thanks! Madhavan