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 <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c @@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace sp = current_stack_pointer(); dump_trace(save_address, trace, NULL, sp); - if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries) - trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace); @@ -58,8 +56,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_st if (tsk == current) sp = current_stack_pointer(); dump_trace(save_address_nosched, trace, tsk, sp); - if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries) - trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk); @@ -69,7 +65,5 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_reg sp = kernel_stack_pointer(regs); dump_trace(save_address, trace, NULL, sp); - if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries) - trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_regs);