The patch titled Subject: kdb: get rid of implicit setting of the current task/regs has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was kdb-gid-rid-of-implicit-setting-of-the-current-task-regs.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kdb: get rid of implicit setting of the current task/regs Some (but not all?) of the kdb backtrace paths would cause the kdb_current_task and kdb_current_regs to remain changed. As discussed in a review of a previous patch [1], this doesn't seem intuitive, so let's fix that. ...but, it turns out that there's actually no longer any reason to set the current task / current regs while backtracing anymore anyway. As of commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master") if we're backtracing on a task running on a CPU we ask that CPU to do the backtrace itself. Linux can do that without anything fancy. If we're doing backtrace on a sleeping task we can also do that fine without updating globals. So this patch mostly just turns into deleting a bunch of code. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191010150735.dhrj3pbjgmjrdpwr@xxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191109111624.4.Ibc3d982bbeb9e46872d43973ba808cd4c79537c7@changeid Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chong Qiao <qiaochong@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daud <f4bug@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c | 8 +------- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 2 +- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 1 - 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c~kdb-gid-rid-of-implicit-setting-of-the-current-task-regs +++ a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c @@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ kdb_bt_cpu(unsigned long cpu) return; } - kdb_set_current_task(kdb_tsk); kdb_bt1(kdb_tsk, ~0UL, false); } @@ -166,10 +165,8 @@ kdb_bt(int argc, const char **argv) if (diag) return diag; p = find_task_by_pid_ns(pid, &init_pid_ns); - if (p) { - kdb_set_current_task(p); + if (p) return kdb_bt1(p, ~0UL, false); - } kdb_printf("No process with pid == %ld found\n", pid); return 0; } else if (strcmp(argv[0], "btt") == 0) { @@ -178,11 +175,9 @@ kdb_bt(int argc, const char **argv) diag = kdbgetularg((char *)argv[1], &addr); if (diag) return diag; - kdb_set_current_task((struct task_struct *)addr); return kdb_bt1((struct task_struct *)addr, ~0UL, false); } else if (strcmp(argv[0], "btc") == 0) { unsigned long cpu = ~0; - struct task_struct *save_current_task = kdb_current_task; if (argc > 1) return KDB_ARGCOUNT; if (argc == 1) { @@ -204,7 +199,6 @@ kdb_bt(int argc, const char **argv) kdb_bt_cpu(cpu); touch_nmi_watchdog(); } - kdb_set_current_task(save_current_task); } return 0; } else { --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c~kdb-gid-rid-of-implicit-setting-of-the-current-task-regs +++ a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ static void kdb_dumpregs(struct pt_regs console_loglevel = old_lvl; } -void kdb_set_current_task(struct task_struct *p) +static void kdb_set_current_task(struct task_struct *p) { kdb_current_task = p; --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h~kdb-gid-rid-of-implicit-setting-of-the-current-task-regs +++ a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h @@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ extern void *debug_kmalloc(size_t size, extern void debug_kfree(void *); extern void debug_kusage(void); -extern void kdb_set_current_task(struct task_struct *); extern struct task_struct *kdb_current_task; extern struct pt_regs *kdb_current_regs; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx are kdb-get-rid-of-confusing-diag-msg-from-rd-if-current-task-has-no-regs.patch