show_stack()/show_trace() prototypes

David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:42:20 -0700


Ingo, the ksymoops patch adds these to linux/sched.h:

extern void show_trace(unsigned long *stack);
extern void show_stack(unsigned long *stack);

This is not good. In general, it is not possible to do a reliable
backtrace with just a stack pointer as a starting point (it is
necessary to have access to the entire "preserved" machine state
instead). I'd suggest to either change the argument to a task_struct
pointer (and update half a dozen platforms or so accordingly), or to
leave the declarations platform-specific like they were before.

Thanks,

--david

PS: force_sig_info() still drops the siginfo pointer passed to it.
Will you fix this soon as promised?
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