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From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkstack.pl: fix for aarch64
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:46:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1544215614.18411.1.camel@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181207122434.efb1941a3ded73267496c784@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 12:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri,  7 Dec 2018 14:58:43 -0500 Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
> 
> > There is actually a space after "sp," like this,
> > 
> > ffff2000080813c8:       a9bb7bfd        stp     x29, x30, [sp, #-80]!
> > 
> 
> Confused.  Why does this matter?  Why is the patched version superior?

<Resend in plain text.>

Right now, checkstack.pl won’t be able to  print anything on aarch64, because it
won’t be able to match the stating objdump line of a function due to this
missing space. Hence, it saw every stack is zero-size.

After applied this patch, checkpatch.pl is able to match the start of a
function’s objdump, and then be able to calculate each function’s stack
correctly.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-07 19:58 [PATCH] checkstack.pl: fix for aarch64 Qian Cai
2018-12-07 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2018-12-07 20:46   ` Qian Cai [this message]

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