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From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] stacktrace: Remove reliable argument from
 arch_stack_walk() callback
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, Mark Brown wrote:

> Currently the callback passed to arch_stack_walk() has an argument called
> reliable passed to it to indicate if the stack entry is reliable, a comment
> says that this is used by some printk() consumers. However in the current
> kernel none of the arch_stack_walk() implementations ever set this flag to
> true and the only callback implementation we have is in the generic
> stacktrace code which ignores the flag. It therefore appears that this
> flag is redundant so we can simplify and clarify things by removing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

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