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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:02:46 +0100
From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] On ppc64le we HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 01:12:37PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> 
> I think that this is not enough. You need to also implement 
> save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() for powerpc defined as __weak in 
> kernel/stacktrace.c. See arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c for reference, but I 
> think it would be much much simpler here given the changelog description.

Is there an exhaustive, definite, non-x86-centric description of the cases
this function needs to look for? Maybe some sort of formal specification?

	Torsten