[PATCH 0/1] x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routines

["Søren Sandmann Pedersen" <ssp@redhat.com>]

Hi,

This is a resurrection of an old patch that I sent about a year ago:

     http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/22/192

At the time, I thought the patch broke perf callchains on 64 bit, but
it turns out that those are broken even without this patch. 

I don't know why that is, but I now think the patch is correct and to
blame.

(FWIW, this

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 461a85d..d977d26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ static const struct stacktrace_ops backtrace_ops = {
 	.warning_symbol		= backtrace_warning_symbol,
 	.stack			= backtrace_stack,
 	.address		= backtrace_address,
-	.walk_stack		= print_context_stack_bp,
+	.walk_stack		= print_context_stack,
 };

makes it produce correct kernel callchains. And yes, I did compile the
kernel with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER).


Soren