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x86/dumpstack: Explain the reasoning for the prologue and buffer size
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:11:24 +0000 (18:11 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:15:28 +0000 (16:15 +0200)
commit2c82f72af387e51eaf182212936b59e9445b6acd
treef06c2b012989f44e0c5776e1e26c360e1527c354
parentd44ec666198ddc26c4cc5f5cd576f1265109363e
x86/dumpstack: Explain the reasoning for the prologue and buffer size

The whole reasoning behind the amount of opcode bytes dumped and prologue
length isn't very clear so write down some of the reasons for why it is
done the way it is.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180417161124.5294-10-bp@alien8.de
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c