* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> Should be done for all architectures, methinks.
> 
> If so, an appropriate way to do that would be to do 
> s/dump_stack/arch_dump_stack/ and do a single all-arch implementation 
> of dump_stack().  (Where we might add new goodies in the future).

i agree we can clean this up - but this is a single-line thing that is 
very useful for QA so i think utility warrants .24 inclusion. The oops 
printouts are not generalized anyway.

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> Problem is that this will add a new an pointless entry to all the 
> stack dumps, unless the arch_dump_stack() implementation is smart 
> enough to skip the innermost frame.

x86 can skip stackframes via stacktrace.c.

	Ingo
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