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Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null)

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null)
Date 2017-02-22 00:20 +0100
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On 02/21/17 15:12, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>>
>> commit 24d86f59093b0bcb3756cdf47f2db10ff4e90dbb
>> Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
>> Date:   Thu Oct 27 08:10:58 2016 -0500
>>
>>     x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
>>
>>     Add a sanity check to ensure the stack only grows down, and print
>>     a
>>         warning if the check fails.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> I don't think I've seen this one.  Any chance this came after resuming
> from a hibernation or suspend?
> 
> 
>> [    1.047295] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M
>> [    1.047356] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
>> [    1.048029] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
>> [    1.048348] WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at f50cdf98 in
>> swapper/2:0 has bad value   (null)
>> [    1.048349] unwind stack type:0 next_sp:  (null) mask:a graph_idx:0
>> [    1.048352] f50cdebc: 00000000f50cdec4 (0xf50cdec4)
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

FWIW, it would be really darned nice to not have all those zeroes in a
32-bit stack frame dump.

Is not a zero stack frame pointer value an end of stack token?

	-hpa

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v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-02-21 23:20 +0100
  Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2017-02-22 00:20 +0100
    Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 18:00 +0100
      Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2017-02-22 22:00 +0100
        Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 22:20 +0100
  Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 00:20 +0100
    Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-02-22 22:10 +0100
      Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 22:30 +0100
        Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-02-22 23:50 +0100
          Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-23 00:10 +0100
            Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-23 00:20 +0100
              Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-25 06:30 +0100

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