Re: [RFC patch 40/41] stacktrace: Remove obsolete functions

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:33:20PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:28:34PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> > +struct stack_trace {
> > +	unsigned int nr_entries, max_entries;
> > +	unsigned long *entries;
> > +	int skip;	/* input argument: How many entries to skip */
> > +};
> 
> I was a bit surprised to see struct stack_trace still standing at the
> end of the patch set, but I guess 41 patches is enough :-)  Do we want
> to eventually remove the struct altogether?
> 
> I was also hoping to see the fragile "skipnr" go away in favor of
> something less dependent on compiler optimizations, but I'm not sure how
> feasible that would be.

It will die, but that only takes another nr_arch+1 patches.