Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:41:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: stack dumps, CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and i386 (was Re: sysrq shows impossible call stack) |
| |
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com> wrote: > > > > Adam> This problem was annoying me a few months ago so I coded up > > Adam> a stack trace patch that actually uses the frame pointer. > > Adam> It is currently maintained in -mjb but I have pasted below. > > Adam> Hope this helps. > > > > Thanks, that looks really useful. What is the chance of this moving > > from -mjb to mainline? > > Good, but it needs to be updated to do the right thing with 4k stacks when > called from interrupt context.
Also, I'd like to be convinced that it does the right thing across assembly code which doesn't set up a correct frame pointer, such as down().
I assume it will simply skip that frame altogether? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |