Terminating the last trace entry with ULONG_MAX is a completely pointless exercise and none of the consumers can rely on it because it's inconsistently implemented across architectures. In fact quite some of the callers remove the entry and adjust stack_trace.nr_entries afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org --- arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c @@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_reg #endif walk_stackframe(current, &frame, save_trace, &data); - if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries) - trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_regs); @@ -172,8 +170,6 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace( #endif walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data); - if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries) - trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX; put_task_stack(tsk); }