The patch titled Subject: alpha: use is_kernel_text() helper has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is alpha-use-is_kernel_text-helper.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/alpha-use-is_kernel_text-helper.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/alpha-use-is_kernel_text-helper.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: alpha: use is_kernel_text() helper Use is_kernel_text() helper to simplify code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930071143.63410-12-wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c~alpha-use-is_kernel_text-helper +++ a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c @@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ dik_show_trace(unsigned long *sp, const extern char _stext[], _etext[]; unsigned long tmp = *sp; sp++; - if (tmp < (unsigned long) &_stext) - continue; - if (tmp >= (unsigned long) &_etext) + if (!is_kernel_text(tmp)) continue; printk("%s[<%lx>] %pSR\n", loglvl, tmp, (void *)tmp); if (i > 40) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx are slub-add-back-check-for-free-nonslab-objects.patch mm-nommu-kill-arch_get_unmapped_area.patch kallsyms-remove-arch-specific-text-and-data-check.patch kallsyms-fix-address-checks-for-kernel-related-range.patch sections-move-and-rename-core_kernel_data-to-is_kernel_core_data.patch sections-move-is_kernel_inittext-into-sectionsh.patch x86-mm-rename-__is_kernel_text-to-is_x86_32_kernel_text.patch sections-provide-internal-__is_kernel-and-__is_kernel_text-helper.patch mm-kasan-use-is_kernel-helper.patch extable-use-is_kernel_text-helper.patch powerpc-mm-use-core_kernel_text-helper.patch microblaze-use-is_kernel_text-helper.patch alpha-use-is_kernel_text-helper.patch