Re: [PATCH] arm64: Clear the stack

[Mark Rutland]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 03:58:19PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 07/03/2018 05:14 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > It might be cleaner just to use on_accessible_stack and then another
> > > function to get the top of stack. This also might just be
> > > reimplementing what x86 already has? (Mark, Ard?)
> > It looks like we could build a get_stack_info() as they have.
> > 
> > We could probably clean up our stack traced atop of that, too.
> 
> So I spent some time looking at this and I'm not 100% clear
> if there would actually be much benefit to re-writing with
> get_stack_info. Most of that design seems to come from x86
> needing to handle multiple unwind options which arm64 doesn't
> need to worry about. Any rework ended up with roughly
> the same code without any notable benefit that I could see.
> It's possible I'm missing what kind of cleanup you're suggesting
> but I think just going with a tweaked version of on_accessible_stack
> would be fine.

I was mostly thinking that a struct stack_info with stack type
enumeration would also be helpful for ensuring that we terminated stack
traces when we had a loop.

I'll reply on your new thread.

Thanks,
Mark.