summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>2009-10-10 17:17:06 +0200
committerMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>2009-10-11 18:12:32 +0200
commitc2d474d6f8b48b6698343cfc1a3630c4647aa7b2 (patch)
tree714791c763d1547dcb0faf2095876949abfcef03 /arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c
parentsh: Fix memory leak in dwarf_unwind_stack() (diff)
downloadlinux-c2d474d6f8b48b6698343cfc1a3630c4647aa7b2.tar.xz
linux-c2d474d6f8b48b6698343cfc1a3630c4647aa7b2.zip
sh: Remove any reference to recursive functions from comments
Originally, dwarf_unwind_stack() was a recursive function and it seems that some of the old comments were never updated. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c b/arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c
index ce8bff45d72c..f242cd120cf1 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c
@@ -540,7 +540,8 @@ void dwarf_free_frame(struct dwarf_frame *frame)
}
/**
- * dwarf_unwind_stack - recursively unwind the stack
+ * dwarf_unwind_stack - unwind the stack
+ *
* @pc: address of the function to unwind
* @prev: struct dwarf_frame of the previous stackframe on the callstack
*
@@ -558,9 +559,9 @@ struct dwarf_frame * dwarf_unwind_stack(unsigned long pc,
unsigned long addr;
/*
- * If this is the first invocation of this recursive function we
- * need get the contents of a physical register to get the CFA
- * in order to begin the virtual unwinding of the stack.
+ * If we're starting at the top of the stack we need get the
+ * contents of a physical register to get the CFA in order to
+ * begin the virtual unwinding of the stack.
*
* NOTE: the return address is guaranteed to be setup by the
* time this function makes its first function call.
@@ -582,9 +583,8 @@ struct dwarf_frame * dwarf_unwind_stack(unsigned long pc,
fde = dwarf_lookup_fde(pc);
if (!fde) {
/*
- * This is our normal exit path - the one that stops the
- * recursion. There's two reasons why we might exit
- * here,
+ * This is our normal exit path. There are two reasons
+ * why we might exit here,
*
* a) pc has no asscociated DWARF frame info and so
* we don't know how to unwind this frame. This is
@@ -626,10 +626,10 @@ struct dwarf_frame * dwarf_unwind_stack(unsigned long pc,
} else {
/*
- * Again, this is the first invocation of this
- * recurisve function. We need to physically
- * read the contents of a register in order to
- * get the Canonical Frame Address for this
+ * Again, we're starting from the top of the
+ * stack. We need to physically read
+ * the contents of a register in order to get
+ * the Canonical Frame Address for this
* function.
*/
frame->cfa = dwarf_read_arch_reg(frame->cfa_register);